Integrative teaching Strategies

This presentation is about integrative teaching strategies, the mode of teaching strategies and steps of focusing inquiry

1. INTEGRATIVE TEACHING Discussant: Maria Theresa Bicar - Edar

2. OBJECTIVES: At the end of discussion we will able to: A. define integrative teaching; B. determine the types and mode of integrative teaching strategies ; and C. apply the steps of inquiry process.

3. General overview: Success in the teaching learning process is always attributed to the creativity of the teacher. Learners vary greatly in terms of learning modes, learning style, learning style references and cognitive style. Integrated teaching involves combining academic subjects to teach around a specific topic. The idea is that students will learn more when they see how the topic connects to different areas in curriculum.

4. Definition of terms Isolate – to set apart from others or far away from others. Anchored – something that serves to hold the an object firmly; to secure firmly Excerpt – (n) a passage selected, performed or copied; (v) to take or publish extract from something (such as a book) Coherence – (n) systematic or logical connection or consistency Linking – to couple or connect by concurrent – operating or occurring at the same time.

5. Motive Question How students understand when we teach the subjects in isolation from one another?

6. Integrative Teaching – is a well organized anchored on real life situation that include learners interests and needs creating a variety of meaningful activities and learning experiences. It paves the way to connecting what is learned in school to real life world rather than isolated facts and information.

7. Volume Water cycle Natural resources composition preservation Multidisciplinary integration - The subject area outcomes remain distinct, but due to some meaningful linkages they are connected together during the process of transactions.

8. Interdisciplinary integration – is a process of integrating the interdependent or common knowledge and skills from more than one subject areas during transaction process.

9. Integration beyond subject areas or trans-disciplinary integration - Is a process where the students day to day experiences are connected to different subject areas to acquire knowledge and skills.

10. Three Modes of Integrative Teaching Strategies Content-Based Instruction Thematic teaching Focusing Inquiry

11. Content-Based Instruction – also known as language curriculum. Is the integration of content learning with the language teaching aims. Refers to the concurrent study of language and subject matter with the format sequence of language presentation dictated by content material.

12. Focusing Inquiry – interdisciplinary approach that uses questions to organize learning. Student-centered and teacher-guided instructional approach that engages students in investigating real world questions. Inquiry-based learning – is a process where students are involved in their learning, formulate questions, investigate widely and then build new understanding, meanings and knowledge.

13. Teaching Strategies for Inquiry Process Low Level Process Recalling Observing Comparing / Contrasting Classifying Defining Interpreting Generalizing High Level Process Inferring Hypothesizing Predicting Analyzing Evaluating

14. Thematic Teaching – provides a broad framework for linking content and process from a variety of discipline.

15. Integrated Unit Design - identifies a major concepts with topics from different subjects webbed around the theme.

16. Steps for the Integrated Unit Design (Thematic Teaching) Decide on a unit theme that will allow all group members to enter to the integration process or will allow all subject areas to join. 2. Identify a major concept to serve as a “common thread” for all the subject areas. 3. Brainstorm and list generalizations that will be derived form the study of the theme. 4. Brainstorms some of the “essential understanding” that would expect learners to derived from the study.

17. 6. List processed (complex performance) and bullet key skills to be emphasized in a unit instruction and activities. 7. For each subject area , write instructional activities to engage learners with essential questions and processes. 8. Write the culminating performance to show the depth of learning. 9. Design the scoring guide (rubric – criteria and standard) to asses the performance task. Additional types of assessment may be used to measure progress throughout the unit. 5. Brainstorm “essential questions” to facilitate study toward the essential understanding.

18. Comprehension check TRUE OR FALSE Integrative teaching strategy is a well organized strategy anchored on real life situation that include learners interest and needs creating a variety of meaningful activities and learning experiences. Transdisciplinary integration is a process where the students day to day experiences are connected to different subject areas to acquire knowledge and skills. Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is the integration of content learning with language teaching aims . Integrated Unit Design identifies a major concepts with topics from different subjects webbed around the theme. Thematic Teaching provides a broad framework for linking content and process from a variety of disciplines .

19. 6) Focusing Inquiry is an interdisciplinary approach that uses questions to organize learning . 7) Students will learn more when they see how the topic connects to different areas of the curriculum. 8) Inquiry-based learning is a process where students are involved in their learning, formulate questions, investigate widely and then build new understanding, meanings and knowledge 9) CBI or content-based instruction is also known as language curriculum. 10. Multidisciplinary is a process of integrating the interdependent or common knowledge and skills from more than one subject areas during transaction process.

20. THANK YOU ☺ theresa