Integrating New
Literacies in the
Curriculum
Group 1
The Concept of Integrated
Curriculum
•Integration-is the process of
adding small parts together to
find a total or whole.
The Concept of Integrated Curriculum
•In retrospect, the introduction of an
integrated curriculum gained greatest
support in the 1960’s.
•Based on the essential organization
of content, the design emphasizes the
roles of diverse entities called academic
disciplines clearly defined in terms
of knowledge, skills and values.
The Concept of Integrated Curriculum
The Concept of Integrated
Curriculum
•Integrated curriculum-is a
teaching approach that
combines different subjects
into one cohesive learning
experience.
The Concept of Integrated Curriculum
Thus, an integrated curriculum…
❑Focuses on basic skills, content and
higher-level thinking;
❑Encourages lifelong learning;
❑Structures learning around themes
and big ideas and meaningful
concepts;
The Concept of Integrated Curriculum
❑Provides connections among various
curricular disciplines;
❑Provides learners opportunities to apply
skills they have learned;
❑Encourages active participation in
relevant real-life experiences;
The Concept of Integrated Curriculum
❑Captivates, motivates and challenges
learners;
❑Provides a deeper understanding of
content;
❑Offers opportunities for more small
group and industrialized instructions;
The Concept of Integrated Curriculum
❑Accommodates a variety of learning
styles/theories (i.e. social learning
theory, cooperative learning, intrinsic
motivation, and self-efficacy) and
multiple intelligences.
•The Association for
Supervision and
Curriculum Development
(2004) presents three
approaches to
integration
01.
02.
03.
Multidisciplinary
Approach
Interdisciplinary
Approach
Transdisciplinary
Integration
Approaches to Integration
1.Multidisciplinary Approach-focuses
primarily on different disciplines.
-Teachers who employ this approach,
may create standards from the
disciplines within a theme.
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
•There are many different ways to create
a multidisciplinary curriculum, and they
tend to differ in the level of intensity of
the integration effort.
Approaches to Integration
•Restructured Basic Education
Curriculum (RBEC)-is a best depiction
of a multidisciplinary approach.
Approaches to Integration
•The four disciplines (Araling
Panlipunan, Values Education, MAPEH
and TLE)were integrated along with
a theme termed Makabayanas an
integrated subject served as a laboratory
of life.
Approaches to Integration
•Makabayan-a learning area that
stressed the development of social
awareness, empathy and commitment
for common good.
•Grades in these four disciplines were
usually computed to comprise the
Approaches to Integration
general grade in Makabayan discipline.
•At the end of the week,
the four disciplines collaborated to design
a culminating activity along with the
given theme that connected these four
discipline areas.
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
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•Intradisciplinary Approach-When a
teacher integrates subdisciplines within a
subject area, he/she is practicing.
•For example, one integrates reading,
writing and oral communication in
the English subject.
Approaches to Integration
•Likewise, teachers often integrate
Philippine history, world history,
geography, economics and government
in an intradisciplinary social studies
program.
Approaches to Integration
•Likewise, science integrates
subdisciplines, such as earth science,
biology, chemistry and physics that
responds to spiral curriculum approach.
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
•Through this integration, teachers expect
students to understand the connections
between the different subdisciplines and
their relationship to the real world.
Approaches to Integration
2.Interdisciplinary Approach-In this
approach to integration, teachers
organize and capsulize the curriculum
around common learning across
disciplines to emphasize inter-
disciplinary skills and concepts
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
-For example, in teaching Filipino as a
discipline, the teacher hones students’
language skills while resorting to content
and topics in AralingPanlipunan.
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
3.Transdisciplinary Integration-In the
transdisciplinary approach to
integration, teachers design a curriculum
within the students needs and concerns.
-Students develop life skills as
they apply disciplinary and
Approaches to Integration
interdisciplinary skills in a real-life context.
Two Routes Lead to Interdisciplinary
Integration
1.project based learning
2.negotiating the curriculum
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
•Transdisciplinary integration-is utilized
through project-based learning, which
involves allowing the students to present a
problem.
•Project-based learning-allows students
to make connections among different
Approaches to Integration
subjects by solving social problems and
answering open-ended questions.
•Learning how to solve problems and to ask
questions enables students to apply the
skills in real-life situations.
Approaches to Integration
Approaches to Integration
Interconnecting the Three Approaches
Interconnecting the Three Approaches
Interconnecting the Three Approaches
1.Project-Based Learning-It engages
students in creating knowledge while
enhancing their skills in critical thinking,
creativity, collaboration, communication,
reasoning, synthesis and resilience.
-As such, it entails an output which
Methods of Curriculum Integration
involves accomplishing a complex task
performing a presentation and producing a
project, a craft or an artefact.
-Here, students start by defining the
purpose of creating the end-product
; identify the audience; do research
Methods of Curriculum Integration
on the topic, design the product;
implement the design; solve the problem
that arise; and come up with
the product guided by a plan
or a model.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Implementation Outcome-As a result,
Curtis (2002) found that project-based
learning helps students work harder,
connect subjects, remember lessons, and
apply them to real-life problems.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
-It also improves behaviorand reduces
absences.
-Assessments focus on teamwork, critical
thinking, and time management.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
2.Service Learning-It refers to learning
that actively involves students in a
wide range of experiences, which often
benefit others and the community, while
also advancing the goals of a given
curriculum.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Community-based service activities are
paired with structured preparation and
student reflection.
•What is unique about service learning ?
-Is that it offers direct application of
theoretical models.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•As such, the real-world application
of classroom knowledge in a community
setting allows students to synthesize
course material in more meaningful ways.
•It impounds integrative, reflective,
contextualized, strength-based, reciprocal,
and lifelong learning.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Implementation Outcome-Glenn (2001)
found that 80% of the students
who do service learning improve their
grades, develop social skills, and gain
a sense of civic duty.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•These programs help students understand
their lessons better and prepare for
future jobs.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
3.Learning Centers/Parallel Disciplines
-A popular way to integrate the
curriculum is to address a topic
or theme through the lenses of
several subject areas.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•In an elementary classroom, students often
experience this approach at learning
centers.
•As students move through the learning
centersto complete the activities, they
learn about the concept being studied
through the lenses of various disciplines.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•In the higher grades, students usually
study a topic or theme in
different classroom.
•This may take the form of
parallel disciplines and teachers sequence
their content to match the content
in other classrooms.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Implementation Outcome-Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU) found that
learning centershelp children focus and
understand the real world through
role-play. They also help kids improve
communication and build relationships.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
4.Theme-Based-Some teachers go beyond
sequencing content and plan collaboratively
and they do it in a more intensive way of
working with a theme dubbed as “theme-
based”.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Often, three or more subject areas
are involved in the study, and
the units ends with an integrated
culminating activity.
•Units of several weeks duration may
emerge from this process, and the
Methods of Curriculum Integration
whole school may involve.
•A theme-based unity involving the
whole school may be independent of
the regular school schedule.
•Other thematic programs may involve
teachers across the same grade, wherein
Methods of Curriculum Integration
teachers carefully connect the activities to
the standards in each discipline.
•Over time, they have developed a
long list of possible culminating activities.
•They also update their Website continually
and use it as a teaching
tool with students.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Implementation Outcome-Theme-based
learning helps students focus and work
together.
•During activities like presentations, they
show a strong understanding of topics.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Teachers also notice fewer behavior
problems, making it enjoyable for
everyone.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
5.Fusion-In this method, teachers fuse
skills, knowledge, or even attitudes into
the regular school curriculum.
-In some schools, students learn
respect for the environment in every
subject area or some incorporate values
across disciplines.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
across disciplines.
•Fusion can involve basic skills.
•Many schools emphasize positive work
habits in each subject areas.
•Educators can also fuse technology across
the curriculum with computer skills
integrated with in every subject area.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•Implementation Outcome-Fusion, or
integrated instruction, helps students
improve in school by connecting different
subjects and their life experiences.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
•It boosts critical thinking, self-confidence,
and a love for learning.
•Motivated teachers and students also
create a fun classroom environment.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
1.Connected-This happens when
topics surrounding disciplines are
connected which allows students to
review and re-conceptualize ideas
within a discipline.
-However, it has its shortcomings
Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
because the content focus still remains
in one discipline.
2.Sequenced-This is observed when
similar ideas are taught together,
although in different subjects, which
Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
facilitates learning across content areas,
but requires a lot of communication
among teachers of different disciplines.
3.Shared-This is when teachers use
their planning to create an integrated
Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
unit between two disciplines.
-Although in some ways, this method
of integration requires a lot of
communication and collaboration
between two teachers.
Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
-A teacher presents a structure,
format and standards in making
research while collaborating with the
science teacher, who focuses on the
content area of research that is
related to science.
Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
4.Webbed-This reflects when a teacher
plans to base the subject area
around a central theme that will
tend students to see the connection
within different subjects.
Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
•Chhabra (2017) posted that integrating
curriculum in the classroom includes
combining different subject areas and
then, teaching them in relation to
a singular theme or an ideas,
innovative teachers and schools prefer
Doing Curriculum Integration in the
Classroom
integrating the curriculum in their
classroom as it improves students
achievement and leads to an increase
in students standardized scores.
Doing Curriculum Integration in the
Classroom
•Placing student achievement on top
priority, an integrated curriculum
utilizes the mentioned three-different
approaches of integration.
Doing Curriculum Integration in the
Classroom
1.It focuses on basic skills, content,
and higher-level thinking.
2.It provides a deeper understanding of
content.
3.It encourages active participation in
relevant real-life experiences.
Benefits of Integrated Curriculum Model
4.It provides connections among various
curricular disciplines.
5.It accommodates a variety of learning
styles, theories and multiple
intelligences.
Benefits of Integrated Curriculum Model
New Literacy Integration in the K
to 12 Curriculum
•New literacy can be included in
the K to 12 curriculum across
different subjects.
•However, it’s not just limited to
the subjects listed in the table.
New Literacy Integration in the K
to 12 Curriculum
•Each learning area can include
various new literacies based on
the lesson, the subject, and the
goals for learning.
•This means new literacy can be
integrated into many different
subjects.
New Literacy Integration in the K to 12
Curriculum
New Literacy Integration in the K to 12
Curriculum
Thank you
very much!
Canoza, Dumago, Villaflor, Macaya,
Maquiling, Laxa