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Integrated studies are unit/subjects that incorporate other learning areas.  For example mathematics can also be used to understand how under developed countries manage their household expenses with a very small amount of capital.  Literacy is also used in music.  Integrated studies help to give meaning across subject areas, helping students to utilise their knowledge within their community.

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How intense would the unit be, would the teacher be able to go into great depth?

Would it take the place of History and Geography, instead of calling it History would it be called Integrated Studies/Inquiry?

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1.  Integrated studies involves creating lessons that merge two or more curriculum disciplines within the lesson.
2. Integrated studies allow students to develop skills for to use in the real world – collaboration, communication, critical thinking
W.
1. How do teachers ensure they are delivering authentic lessons using the integrated approach?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of integrated studies?

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1. Integrated studies is the relating of the curriculum from additional discipline and implementing it into classroom practice to provide students with opportunities to make significant connections. Students are able to pinpoint, assess and transfer information across multiple areas whilst combining real life skills. Connections between curriculums can be made allowing for a deeper understanding of subjects.
2. Individual learning enables students to develop their skills and perceptions, building upon their critical and creative thinking.

(W)
1. How is Integrated Studies implemented into the classroom?
2. How can teachers ensure that students are learning and understanding the concepts of the

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1.Integrated studies bring many areas or subjects together to compound prior knowledge and put learning into relevent contexts.
2.Individual learning and collaborative learning styles can be catered to be using students favored subjects to engage in others.
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1.Why did I think that integrated studies was just "all the other subjects that are not core curriculum?"
2. With a such a crowded curriculum how can  we incorporate special needs into integrated studies so that the burden is not on ES and is spread through all the contributors to learning. Staff and students

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1. Integrated studies allows educators to teach cross curriculum connections through the use of a theme or topic.
2. Shows students how skills transfer/overlap between different subjects.

(W)
1. How to successfully assess if students are learning the skills being taught.
2. How to incorporate lesson plans from other subjects to those being taught in integrated studies.

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1.Integrated studies allows educators to combine different disciplines using a theme or topic, providing students with the information to gain further knowledge, understanding and skills.

2. Integrated studies promotes collaboration between students, critical thinking skills and by utilising an inquiry based learning approach, the educators are able to empower students and challenge them to lead their own learning.

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1. As an educator, how can I adjust my teaching to incorporate the diverse learning needs of all students across the various KLA's?

2. What are the possible limitations of integration?

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1.  Integrated studies is a form of teaching a lesson with a combination of cross curriculum subjects in it.
2.  It is a 21st century learning tool that students can use to collaborate with each other while using inquiry based learning to investigate information on particular topics to make connections to real world.

W
1.  How to effectively teach integrated studies in the classroom so the students are getting the most out of it.
2.  How to teach integrated studies to children with special needs.

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1. Integrated Studies encompasses, introduces and allows students to apply a range of new concepts and skills that the school and community feel are important to acquire. Through a variety of contexts, students learn through inquiry and engagement. Developing various 21st-century learning skills such as, ICT skills, learning through collaboration, and using critical thinking, reasoning and logic.

2. Integrated studies, allows students to develop new perceptions and information, building upon prior knowledge and learning. The ACARA’s cross curriculum priorities and a number of general capabilities aid educators in incorporating and selecting what areas to integrate into the classroom.

(W)
1. What are the limitations of integration?

2. What is the most effective way to teach integration units?

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1. Integrated studies is combining curriculum from more than one discipline and implementing them into classroom practice to provide students opportunities to make meaningful connections. Students are able to identify, assess and transfer information across multiple areas thus consolidating real life skills. Connections between curriculums can be made allowing for a deeper understanding of subjects.
2. Knowledge, skill and understanding are developed through, flexibility, collaboration and spontaneity. Students engage in critical thinking, creativity and adaptability through 21st century practices such as project-based learning. Opportunities are provided for students to learn through various means and methods, using diverse tools to further develop their knowledge.

(W)
1. How is the content from each discipline chosen to ensure that students are meeting the requirements of each subject?
2. How are students assessed successfully in all areas of the disciplines?

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1. Integrated studies is teaching a particular topic by assimilating two or more subjects.
2. Integrated studies enables the teaching of topics that provide meaning and useful life skills to students while integrating the curriculum guidelines into the studies.

W
1.How can a teacher ensure that all students needs and interests are supported in integrated studies?
2.How will a teacher be able to assess if the method used in integrated studies is effective?

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1. Integrated learning is about understanding how to engage in the assimilation of two or more subjects in a lesson or unit to teach the students and for the students to gain an understanding of those integrated topics or subjects.

2. The combination of using two or more subjects is about knowing how to learn, plan and teach the unit, resource or plan. A lesson can be delivered on the topic about family life in the late 1800's, the first lesson can be for the class to read the novel, 'Little Women'. The follow up lesson will be watching the movie and then having a class discussion comparing the book to the movie.

W
How do I use inquiry learning to engage the students with the topic or subject?
What are the best strategies to use in identifying the gaps in a students current knowledge?

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1. Integrated studies occurs when a teacher combines more than just the core learning material into a lesson.
2.One of the purposes for integrating studies is to make learning more relevant for students and encourage them to apply the new learned knowledge to everyday life.

(W)
1. How do you know as a teacher what to integrate and then how do you make that inclusive for student's with disabilities?
2. Is a teacher's ability to integrate subjects assessed in any way?

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Samantha Marshall                                                                                  (K)1. Integrated studies is an approach to learning and teaching than helps connect knowledge, understanding and skills to different subjects in a meaningful and memorable way                                                                                        2. Integrated studies uses and involves the use of many different 21st century teaching and learning strategies such as student centred learning, collaboration, inclusion and investigation.

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Samantha Marshall                                                                                  (K)1. Integrated studies is an approach to learning and teaching than helps connect knowledge, understanding and skills to different subjects in a meaningful and memorable way                                                                                        2. Integrated studies uses and involves the use of many different 21st century teaching and learning strategies such as student centred learning, collaboration, inclusion and investigation.

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1. How teachers implement integrated studies into their curriculum and core units. For example what teaching and learning resources do teachers use?

2. How successful is the use of integrated studies for disabled, and learning challenged children?

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1. Integrated studies can be a mix of subjects rolled into one for students to learn and gain a deeper understanding

2. It involves 21st century pedagogy, collaboration, inclusion and critical thinking.

(W)

1. How can an educator ensure inclusion for all students and decide what units to integrate?

2. What resources help educators make integrated studies successful in the classroom?

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1. Integrated studies provide opportunities to incorporate different subjects/disciplines. For example, learning about sustainability or Indigenous studies in English. It enables students to learn about the real world while undertaking core subjects and developing core skills such as writing.

2. An integrated approach helps lift the pressures off teachers in not having enough time to teach students everything.

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1. How do teachers plan/decide what to integrate, with respect to the interests of students and school/curriculum expectations?

2. How do teachers take this planning and convert it into practice? What approaches/strategies would they use?

Helen

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1. The implementation of integrated studies aims to develop a child’s own understandings of the world around them. Students can explore a range of curricula learning areas that impact everyday life, enriching their concepts of life in the twenty-first century. Via exploring an inquiry approach students create their own learning experiences and develop more complex attachments towards ideas and events.

2. Inquiry learning is an active approach for integrated studies, aiming to build a range of skills for students to tackle life in the future. The engagement of learning areas such as language and literacy provide students with communication abilities, and learning areas including health, physical education, the humanities, technology and science promote collaborative, innovative, cognitive, analytical, and many more skills to assist citizens who are actively involved.

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1. Rather than segregating learning areas integrated studies encourages children to consider how different subjects link together and support each other. In a diverse classroom some children may learn at different paces, speak English as a second language, or have a learning disability. How can we cater for the needs of diverse students, and avoid integrated studies from becoming overwhelming or content overloaded?

2. Integrated studies require a child to consider the “bigger picture” of the world. Learning is limitless and continues to evolve outside the classroom. What are some strategies and resources children and parents can use at home to support their knowledge on social, physical, and biological factors of the world around them?

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1.Integrating studies is the combination of various subjects being taught cohesively through a common theme or topic.

2.Integrated studies is a modernized 21st century method of teaching and learning that connects them to relevant everyday situations .

(W)
What are methods to successfully incorporate integrated studies into the classroom?
How does this method of teaching apply to children of all learning abilities?

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1. Integrated studies is a balancing act of student lead learning, making sure individual needs and interests are met,and meeting the curriculum and policy requirements of the school and government in order to utilise Interdisciplinary learning oppotunities to teach fundamental skills, and show how they link directly relate to real life activities.

2. Integrated studies requires teachers to find ways to help students as individuals  and teams with different experience levels explore their interests in real life activities and learning oppotunities.
Recording progression and achievements will ensure students are assessed when the curriculum is met, and keep track of what remaining elements are needed to guide program choices.

(W)
How can we show and ensure the accdemic achievements and value in play based learning and activities that look like "fun" to students, parents and "old school" educators?

How do we keep ourselves accountable for the time / effort in an overcrowded curriculum, so the "laid back" teaching isn't time wasted or lead off track by student lead learning?

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1. Integrated studies is bringing together traditionally separated subjects so that students can grasp a more authentic understanding.
2.  It appeals to students with interests and capabilities in more than one area.

(W)
1.  How does integrated studies work effectively for students with learning difficulties?
2. What are some teaching strategies for ensuring integrated studies are successful for all learners?

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1. Intergrated studies is a move away from the traditional method of teaching where the curriculum was arranged by subject. An intergrated curriculum sees subjects blending around themes and issues.
2. Intergrated studies foster students understanding of concepts in a meaningful real world manner.
(W)
1. How can this be achieved?
2. How can teachers ensure that students are learning and understanding the outcomes of the unit

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1. Integrated studies allows students to make meaning of different areas of studies that are found within the Australian Curriculum.
2. Integrated studies focuses on making connections for students, which allows them to be involved in activities that are relevant to everyday life.

(W)
1. Does integrated studies allow for students of various needs participate in all activities?
2. How can integrated studies effectively and successfully be used in the classroom?

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1. Integrated studies allows the students to learn the connection of different learning areas within the curriculum.
2. Integrated studies is another 21st century educational tool which prepares the students to succeed in a world which is continually evolving in technology and society.

Want:
1. How do we integrate studies effectively in the classroom?
2. The best strategies to use in order to cater for all the individual learning needs within integrated studies

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Know:
1.  Integrated studies is the means by which teaching is provided to students using more than one means.
2.  Through the use of integration, this enables students to make connections of understandings in more than one learning area.
Want:
1.  How to integrate successfully and maintain student focus effectively;
2. What is the best strategies for teachers for the successful delivery of integrated studies?

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Know:
1. Integrated studies allows children to look and focus on the big picture
2. Integrated studies allows children to be able to connect each subject to the real world

Want:
1. How to effectively use integration?
2. how to hold useful enquiry sessions?

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1. Integrated studies is commonly practiced in Australian primary schools. Todays global economy is centred  around the development and exchange of knowledge and information. Integrated studies allows students to develop multifaceted expertise so they can grasp essential roles interrelationships play in the real world. Thus integrated studies brings a diverse range of disciplines via comprehensive delivery, enabling students to develop deep embedded and meaningful understanding.

(W)
1. Does integrated studies assist students who require differentiated instruction?

2. How does intergrated studies assist students gain 21st century skills?

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1. Integrated studies brings various curriculum areas together through the use of a theme or topic, this theme or topic can be developed by the educator.

2. Integrated studies allows the students to explore their own knowledge, interests and attitudes, while allowing the educator to recognise the gaps in the students learning and knowledge.

(W)
1. How does integrated studies assist those students who are not as gifted as others in some curriculum areas?

2. Can and is integrated studies used within special education? If so how is it implemented?

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1. Integrated studies is an inquiry based approach to learning which allows children to actively participate and investigate a topic of interest within a framework presented by the educator.

2. Integrated studies allows children to work on team projects in order to explore connections of how a variety of subject areas are brought together to create a whole.

(W)
1. How does integrated studies provide students with the necessary skills required for an unpredictable future?

2. How does integrated studies contribute to critical and creative thinking skills?

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1. Integrates studies is the transferring of existing knowledge to show that what you learn in one area you can use in another.

2. Integrated studies allows a student to make sense of their world and the use of what they learn within it. Allowing them to experiment with their own ideas and concepts in their educational journey.

(W)
1. Can you integrate to many subjects and miss the key point of the lesson.

2. Does integration lend itself to Howard Gardners Multi-intelligence theory. With allowing students to make sense of it in their own style of learning?

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1. Integrated studies is a combination of subjects across the curriculum that allow students to understand the varying associations and influences within a topic

2. Integrated studies requires teamwork, collaboration and develops thinking skills.

(W)
1. As a pre-service teacher, how would you plan and execute integrated studies into your teaching.

2. How would an educator assess whether the introduction of integrated studies is right for their class.

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1. Integrated studies combines many subjects, to assist students in gaining an understanding of how ideas are connected.

2. Integrated studies is a contemporary method of teaching and learning.

(W)
1. Which subjects are best paired together, to ensure maximum learning and development is achieved?

2. How can an educator most effectively assess if integrated studies is suited to their students, and meeting their needs adequately?

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