What strategies can be implemented when choosing themes in Integrated Studies learning projects by Kate Anne https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies EDU40004- Integrated Studies Kate Muccignat- 100565570 en-us 2018-08-06 00:10:53 UTC 2018-08-06 07:06:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png Integrated Learning Approach kmuccignat1 https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272012642 Integrated teaching approach, focuses on providing students with skills and understanding that enables them to identify the links and connection numerous learning areas have with each other (Murdoch, 1998; Fogarty, 1991).
The importance of an integrated teaching approach, is that it enables educators to teach students, through combining numerous learning areas through providing real world connections, rather than shallow coverage of all learning areas individually (Hanlon, 2004).
(Integrative learning, n.d)]]> 2018-08-06 00:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272012642 Examples of some Teaching Approaches for Integrated Curriculum kmuccignat1 https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272014198 Webbed Model:
Curriculum is designed use a theme to integrate subject matter from different areas, emphasising patterns that link the different learning areas together. (Fogarty, 1991)
Example:
Topic: Indigenous Australians
 Curriculum areas: History, Geography and Sustainability
 (Swinburne Online DB; Biancotti, 2018)
 
 Integrated Model:
Focuses on overlapping topics and concepts from different disciplines and rearranges the sequence of teaching, so that concepts from different learning areas with similar skills required are taught around the same time. Resulting, in students identifying purpose of the skills learnt across different areas that can have real-life relevance. (Murdoch, 1998; Fogarty, 1991)
 Example:
Topic: Australian Society
Interdisciplinary areas: History, Sustainability, Health and Physical Education, Visual Arts and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Researching using ICT, different visual arts representations of the evolution of Australian Society; way of living, sustainable practices, availability of resources; money, technology, food and water, ect., impacted on the world in which we live today.  (Murdoch, 1998).

Networked Model:
Views the curriculum through a prism, in which multiple dimensions and directions are focused on at a given time. This model provides various avenues for student to explore concepts and develop their understanding. Student’s explore connections within and across disciplines, and eventually develop the skills to go on and invent their own exploration avenues, taking control of their learning (Fogarty, 1991). 
 
Example: 
Topic: Australian Society
Implementation: students develop their own plan for a new technological device that serves a purpose for the needs they estimate future generations will require for their learning. Incorporating students own design, the learning areas of; visual arts, ICT, mathematics, and history. 


]]> 2018-08-06 00:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272014198 Bronfrenbrenner Ecological & Bloom's Taxonomy Model kmuccignat1 https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272022363 (Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, 2011).
Bronfrenbrenner, highlights in the ecological model, that children learning from their experiences in numerous levels; microsystem; the child, mesosystems; school and community, and the macrosystem; 


While Bloom's taxonomy emphasises the importance of the progression of student's understanding and the application and creation of new understanding in different contexts (Teachings in Education [video], 2017).
(Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, 2012) 
]]> 2018-08-06 01:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272022363 Purpose of the models kmuccignat1 https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272027539

The Models utilise and develop student’s skills to use tuning activities such as brainstorming, group/peer discussions, to immerse themselves in student-centred research projects, that require them to reflect, challenge, link and make sense of the information gathered (Murdoch, 1998). Altering the learning experience from one in which they’re required to remember the information provided for one learning area, to applying this knowledge and analysing the application to another learning; creating new understanding and implementation to skills and concepts, moving from lower levels of understanding to more advanced, higher levels of thinking ,while developing students independence for their learning and, encouraging exploration and engagement with their learning through their interests of the topic/ theme of different units of work. (http://pcs2ndgrade.pbworks.com/w/page/46897760/Revised%20Bloom%27s%20Taxonomy) ]]> 2018-08-06 02:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272027539 Student-directed learning projects kmuccignat1 https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272032960 (Furia, n.d)
The purpose of integrated studies is to provide student's with purpose to their learning for real life experiences, developing students understanding of their world (Murdoch, 1998). 



]]> 2018-08-06 03:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272032960 Steps for Integration for Projects kmuccignat1 https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272049102 1. Choose topic and learning areas for focus of integrated exploration
2. Select appropriate integrated teaching approach
3. provide student's with opportunities to explore deeper areas of interest for project focus
4. Assess students engagement and application of skills in the numerous area focus based on final project]]> 2018-08-06 06:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kmuccignat1/Assignment1IntegratedStudies/wish/272049102