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Strategies
(ITS)
PREPARED BY: GAN ZI XI
What is integrated teaching?
An integrated approach allows learners to explore, gather, process, refine
and present information about topics they want to investigate without the
constraints imposed by traditional subject barriers (Pigdon and Woolley,
1992).
An integrated approach allows students to engage in purposeful, relevant
learning.
Integrated learning encourages students to see the interconnectedness
and interrelationships between the curriculum areas.
In an integrated curriculum unitallactivities contain opportunities for
students to learn more about the content (Pigdon and Woolley, 1992).
Smith and Ellery (1997) agree with this, saying that children can develop
a deeper understanding of content through a range of purposeful activities.
Objectives of Integrative Teaching
Strategies
1) To foster security and satisfaction.
2) To promote cooperative learning.
3) To help develop sense of values.
4) To help develop self-direction.
5) To foster creativity.
6) To provide opportunities for social action.
7) To help evaluate learning.
Principles Underlying the Planning
for Integrative Teaching Strategies
1. The development of the whole personality of the learner is more important
than the subject matter.
2. Long rage plans and large units should be prepared to daily and isolated tasks.
3. Learning activities should be recognized around real-life problems of the
pupils, their needs and interests.
4. Learning should be characterized by group planning, group work, and group
assessment.
5. Teaching-learning activities should follow democratic procedures.
6. Individual differences should be provided for by a wide variety of learning and
experiences.
7. The atmosphere of the classroom should be permissive and happy.
Kinds of Work Units or Integrative
Activities in the Classroom
In the integrative classroom, the subject
matter is divided into meaningful learning
experiences which are unified around a certain
core or theme for which the child has a felt
need.
This organized learning experiences are called
units.
UNIT
An organization of activities or
experiences around a purpose or a
problem.
It signifies wholeness, oneness
or unity.
The Three Kinds of Units of
Work
the units are organized round the usual
Subject Matter textbook chapters or topics or around
Units major generalization and principles.
3 Modes
RECALL INFER
OBSERVE HYPOTHESIZE
COMPARE/CONTRAST PREDICT
CLASSIFY ANALYZE
DEFINE SYNTHESIZE
INTERPRET EVALUATE
GENERALIZE
Benefits
1) Help alleviate fragmentation of learning and
isolated skill instruction.
2) Train students to think and reason at a higher
level (critical thinking).
3) Provide instruction in a more relevant and
interesting to the students.
Educational implications:
Pre-service teachers are expected to demonstrate
and practice the professional and ethical
requirements of the teaching profession.