AN INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

AN INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

1. LEARNING LANGUAGE

   • AN INTEGRATED CURRICULUM: a context for language learning
     • Why integrate contents and language?
       • 1º Language as the medium of learning
         • 2º Spending classroom time as usefully as possible
           • 3º Achive learning success
             • 4º Support language and curriculum learning in a reciprocal way
               • 5º Benefits of a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom

2. LEARNING THROUGH LANGUAGE

   • in the process of using it
   • when learners use it to construct knowledge across all areas of the curriculum
   • PLANING A UNIT THAT INTEGRATES LANGUAGE AND CURRICULUM LEARNIG
     • Key Pedagogical Principles: Focus on meaning, language and use
     • FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING
       • 1. Students needs and Curriculum demands
         • 2. Students´Language Development Needs / Language Inventory for the topic
           • 3. Developing the focus language
             • 4. Evaluation
   • INTEGRATING LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT LEARNING
     • FINDING THE LANGUAGE IN THE CURRICULUM
       • Language Demands - topic of study-
       • What language children would need to participate in learning
       • If / Where the opportunities for language development are being missed
     • FINDING OUT ABOUT CHILDREN´S LANGUAGE
       • Assessment task for READING
         • CLOZE EXERCISE
       • Assessment task for SPEAKING
         • PAIRED PROBLEM SOLVING
       • ONGOING and FORMATIVE assessment
         • - Observation - Interaction with individual children - porfolios work - outcomes of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking tasks - Children´s own self-assessment

3. LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE

   • language as object
   • SPELLING
   • PHONIC
   • GRAMMAR
     • TEACHING PHONEMIC AWARENESS AND SPELLING
       • Sound-letter relationships inductively within the context of something that is meaningful and whole
   • It is most meaningful when it occurs in the context of language-in-use
   • Where do they fit in an Integrated Unit?

4. MAIN PRINCIPLES:

   • Know to Unknow
   • Meaning to Form
   • Whole to Past