integrated curriculum

traditional curriculumfactory design

Instructional approach – Teacher centered –Factory approach-time based (grades/age)-memorization-textbook driven-no choice-fragmented curriculum-grades averaged-print based emphasis-diversity-literacy - 3 r's -academic driven -individual subjects-basics emphasized -over all -- thinking for gifted-teach once – isolation-passive learning-bell curve

digital citizenship

Presented by: Brent Daigle, Ph.D.

values undertakingFor the most part, institutions change slowly. Such gradual change may be a positive element. The practices associated with an institution tend to be worked out by trial and error over long periods of time. educational institutions—which have come to bear a primary responsibility for the intellectual and moral health of the next generation—such conservatism is especially to be recommended. we should not want to—sacrifice our children to the latest fad, education is fundamentally and primarily a “values undertaking,” and educational values are perennially in dispute. Basic tenet: fundamentals --> purposes of education, and the notion of what it means to be an educated person, are subjects about which individuals—both professional and lay—hold distinctive and often conflicting views. How could we possibly create an educational system that would please the three Bills….. Bill Cosby….Bill O’Reilly …. Bill Clinton ?????


integrated curriculumcontent is drawn fromseveral subject areas tofocus on a particular topicor theme.


integrated curriculumRather than studying math or social studies in isolation, for example, a class

might study a unit called The Sea, using math to calculate pressure at certain

depths and social studies to understand why coastal and inland populations

have different livelihoods (ASCD, 2003).


philosophicalunderpinnings

Edison Ellsworth Oberholtzer

Dissertation: An integrated curriculum in practice; a study of the development, installation, and appraisal of a certain type of integrated curriculum in the educational program of the public elementary schools of Houston, Texas, (1937)

Oberholtzer: Founder of University of Houston

“Only in education, never in the lifeof the farmer, sailor, merchant,physician, or laboratory experiment, doesknowledge mean primarily a store ofinformation aloof from doing.”


John Dewey


Ralph Tyler

Tyler viewed it as a "must" to help students obtain a unified view of their learning.

Elementary & Secondary Education Act of 1965"the horizontal relationship of curriculum experiences”


Benjamin Bloom

viewed it as a "must" to help students obtain a unified view of their learning.

so…society : where is skill integration?

traditional pedagogy

Integration is all around us; in society and in nature. Most contemporary jobs require the integration of a range of skills.

In today’s workforce, we are given a problem and asked to solve it, often with

guidance but infrequently with direct instruction. The “test” is whether or not the problem gets solved. In traditional schools students are given a set of facts and asked to memorize them, but then are not given the opportunity to apply them in a way that is applicable to life outside of the school.

Integration: the combiningand coordinating of separateparts or elements into aunified whole. -webster

children broadly exploreknowledge in various subjects.

relationship among concepts

thematic units = organized principles

flexible schedules

flexible groupings

Must include:

combined subjects

emphasis on projects

goes beyond textbook

characteristics of applied learningstudent directed

real-world applicationresearch based

multiple resources

embedded knowledge

conducted over time

concludes: end product


characteristics of applied learning

generalization

social skills

empowerment


characteristics of applied learning

administratorsfunding


time expedient 10.


curricular framework9.


8. life-based


7. increases problem solving skills


6. authentic literature


5. problem ->answer


4. collaboration


brain – based approach3.


2. increases standardized scores


student enjoyment1.


integrated curriculum

Education

brent daigle

integrated curriculum

subjects emphasis

educational values

based emphasisdiversity

various subjects

purposes of education

unified view