Integrated curriculums are a progressive approach to education in today's society. With integrated curriculum, students are taught all subjects through an overarching theme uniting them together. For example, students who learn through integrated curriculums about the subject poverty in America can gain multiple lenses for viewing the issue. Poverty in America is not only relevant, but can be discussed through the contents of math, science, English, social studies, and health. Students who participate in integrated curriculums might be under the impression that they have a lesser workload than traditional students because they are working on one issue through multiple different subjects.
Integrated curriculums offer students just as much incentive to learn as traditional curriculums; however, it is crucial for teachers to plan together. Typically, in schools that have integrated curriculums, a collaborative work time is allotted to teacher so they can plan units and lessons together. Having this collaboration among educators brings a unique twist to traditional education. Educators are all in one room bringing their own expertise to a particular subject, and working together on assignments and assessments collaboratively to put forth the best product for student comprehension.
The exercise of creating our own integrated units during this presentation allowed for the audience tor really understand and practice the planning that goes into working for a school with an integrated curriculum. It would be interesting to assess data and compare schools with integrated curriculum to traditional non-integrated schools to see which provides a more successful learning environment and academic success to students.
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