EDU40007: Integrated Studies Professional Develpment by Eleanor Price https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu Why should schools include integrated studies? What is the purpose of it all? en-us 2017-03-23 00:46:36 UTC 2023-02-07 17:00:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/148893065/14d72654114a62badf517311c1b8af3b/Knowledge.jpg 1/. Tuning In elle_c_price https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/162518534 Step 1: Prior knowledge
What do your students know?
  • incorporates the learning of several disciplines within one lesson/unit.
  • It enables students to explore different subject areas simultaneously
  • Helps make schooling more relevant
  •  allows students to connect what they learn to real-life situations
  • allows students to be active participants in their learning and to further assist the student to construct their own knowledge.
  • allows students to develop critical thinking skills and learn how to transfer knowledge from one context to another. 
  • It allows students to explore ideas through collaboration and critical thinking.
  • Success in integrated studies entails collaboration and student engagement, preparing students for a complex future.  
  • combines different areas of the curriculum through a theme or series of lessons, helping students to make connections and gain a deeper understanding of their learning. 
  • It caters to various learning styles 
  •  This also  helps to manage the crowded curriculum educators are faced with.  

Step 2: Ascertain student questions and interest in the topic.
What else would you like to know?

  •  approaches and strategies
  • motivation and engagement
  • Learning outcomes
  • Assessment 
  • Subject areas
  • Challenging students
  • Achieve a balance: explict teaching and student led

Why should schools include integrated studies?
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Gordon, 2014 defines integration as

"An approach to teaching and learning that connects knowledge, understanding and skills from within or across subject areas in meaningful ways".

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Why should schools include integrated studies?

Why did I choose this question?
  1. BROAD: it has a number of overarching themes and therefore multiple lines of inquiry.
  2. It allows me to address the topic that really interests me: 
"LEARNER AGENCY"

Figure 2. Inquiry learning (Smith, 2015).
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Figure 3. Signposts (Devon Geography, 2014).]]> 2017-04-16 23:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166488182 6/. Reflection and Action elle_c_price https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166489092
This is up to you!!

“creating a habitat for wonder”, where students learn to be comfortable with uncertainty, “where it is more exciting NOT to know something than it is to know something” (Murdoch, 2014).  

Figure 4. Eugene Ionesco Quote. (Ionesco, n.d.).]]> 2017-04-17 00:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166489092 Start Here elle_c_price https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166498309 2017-04-17 03:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166498309 Start Here elle_c_price https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166498512 2017-04-17 03:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elle_c_price/spktdt1cavwu/wish/166498512