Integrative Teaching

INTEGRATIVE TEACHING

Ø  This teaching technique is concerned to the development of a well-rounded personality-an individual who can adjust and respond to any given situation. This mode of learning tries to move away w/ the study of the subjects in the traditional manner and substitutes learning activities as units of work which would help the pupils/students solve their problems.

The objectives of integrative teaching are:

1) To promote cooperative learning by having teachers and pupils/students plan together the learning activity.

2) To keep develop selp-direction by way of developing in the children the ability to control their own learning activities.

3) To foster security and self-confidence by developing the pupils/students a feeling of acceptance and belonging as members of the group.

4) To develop creativity through self-expression in art, music and dramatic lessons.

5) To promote opportunities for social action using every opportunity to develop in the children the attitude of cooperation.

INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES

Ø  The learning activities should be well organized around real-life situations of the pupils/students, focusing on their interesting and needs. Learning should be characterized by group planning, group work and group evaluating.

FOUR MODES OF INTEGRATIVE TEACHING

A) THEMATIC TEACHING-it is teaching themes organize learning around ideas. It provides broad framework for linking content and process from a variety of disciplines. The theme also helps learners see the meaningful connections across disciplines or skill areas.

    Ex. Integrated Unit Design

B) CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION (CBI)-is the integration of content learning w/ language teaching aims. It refers to the concurrent study of language and subject matter, w/ the form and sequence of language presentation dictated by content material. The language curriculum is centered on the academic needs and interest of the learner, and crosses the barrier between language and subject matter courses.

   Ex. 

        a)Filipino and Social Studies

        b) English and Science

C) FOCUSING INQUIRY-is an interdisciplinary approach that uses question to organize learning. Like most interdisciplinary teaching, it crosses conventional knowledge boundaries. The teacher guides learners to discover answer to questions, whether or not answer pre-exist. It can be a self- renewing cycle of questions and answer. The process of  “inquiry” is the organizer of the instructional design while “content” is relegated to an ancillary place.

The process of inquiry includes the following steps:

1) Frame a focusing question.(This should be linked to prior knowledge)

2) Present a field of facts.(Who? When? How  Much?)

3) Help learners connect or relate facts.(interpret, infer, give meaning)

4) Help learners generate explanatory ideas.(generalization)

5) Help learners find answers.

D) WORK-LIKE EXPERIENCE-the purpose of their endeavor include teaching technical competence, and the related activities include planning, and evaluation complex tasks.

TWO TYPES OF WORK-BASED LEARNING

1) Youth-run enterprise-can be an exceptionally valuable type of work-based learning because students are able to take responsibility at a level that is rarely possible in an adult work place.

2) Cooperative occupational education experience (co-op)-this is the one of the oldest types of work-based learning: co-op integrate classroom learning w/ paid practical work experience in a field of the student interest.