Curriculum Integration

Curriculum Integration

1. Process

   • Scan and Cluster: group expectations into key concepts
   • Curriculum Dissection: look at one concept and break it down
     • KNOW: What do students need to know?
     • DO: What do students need to do?
     • BE: What values are being taught?
   • Big Question
   • Culminating Task
     • Meaningful and relevant
     • Assessment tool
     • Students demonstrate the KNOW, DO, BE
   • Daily Learning Opportunities
   • Assessment
     • Assessment for learning

2. Benefits

   • Student Engagement
     • Fun
     • Laughter
     • Excitement
     • Breath of fresh air
     • LEARNING
   • Relevant Meaningful Curriculum
     • Depth of Learning
     • students want MORE, know MORE, do MORE
     • Culminating tasks showed students' understanding of the knowledge and skills
   • Literacy Across the curriculum
     • More relevant and meaningful
     • Working on literacy skills more often
   • Assessment
     • More efficient: more expectations assessed
     • Easier to differentiate

3. Road Bumps

   • Numeracy
     • Difficult to integrate in some subjects, when it was successful integration made math more meaningful with real life connections
   • Time
     • More time to plan but saved a lot of time in the day to day planning, long spans of time working on a task

4. Planning

   • Different way of thinking and planning, helps keep teachers more focused and they have a better idea of where they need to go next

5. In My Role

   • Use Language Across Topics
   • Use Digital Technology Across Topics
   • Plan Culminating Tasks
     • Ask for Feedback/Plan with the Trades Teachers
       • Will Add More Relevancy to the Tasks
     • Time is Short - Use these to Teach the Skills too?