Integrated Curriculum

Integrated Curriculum

1. Three categories (links between disciplines)

   • Correlation
   • Fusion
   • Integration

2. Curriculum Integration

   • Instruction centered around a concept, issue, or experience in a career-themed context.
   • Learners explore topics in the way for bringing curriculum to real life, by the discovering a unifying concept across academic disciplines.
   • Explored concept makes the curriculum aspects meaningful.

3. Interdisciplinary

   • A knowledge view and curriculum approach that applies methodology and language from different disciplines to examinate a central theme, or work.
     • Interdisciplinary curriculum
       • Combines several school subjects into one active project or is organized to cut across subject-matter lines, bringing together various aspects of the curriculum into meaningful association.
   • Benchmark Descriptors
     • Transforming
       • Student thinking and work reflects an understanding of relationships and ideas across disciplines
       • Multiple disciplines are explored through student-centered learning approaches
       • Students examine disciplines for common skills, concepts, and ideas.
         • Its aim is to explore and find solutions for the real-world issues.
       • Curriculum strands and themes are built around essential questions.
       • Learning is flexible and shows the understanding of a concept through multiple perspectives.
     • Developing
       • Teacher focuses on creating interdisciplinary curriculum.
       • Thematic units are used as organizing principles
       • Teacher works as a coach, facilitating the active learning.
       • Staff has common planning time to work together to develop integrated curriculum.
       • Collaborative teaching
       • Essential questions are used to guide exploration across disciplines.

4. Transdisciplinary

   • An approach focused on preparing for integration in real social life.
     • Creativity and flexibility have central roles in the Education.
   • Transdisciplinary Learning and Curriculum
     • Considers the reassessment of the role of intuition, imagination, sensitivity and body in imparting knowledge.
     • Learner must be given the chance to present life and the world around in a harmonious and complex way. Also student himself must be regarded in its entirety, as a whole.

5. Multidisciplinary

   • Combination of various disciplines as independent and separate components of learning wich allows students to work within discipline specific parameters and attain discipline specific goals.
     • Multidisciplinary Integrated Curriculum
       • An instructional method and materials for multidisciplinary teams of teachers to organize their instruction so that students are encouraged to make meaningful connections across subject areas.
       • Characteristics of An Effective Multidisciplinary Integrated Curriculum
         • Academic and Technical Rigor
         • Authenticity
         • Applied Learning
         • Active Exploration
         • Adult Connections