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Tying it all Together; The Process of Integrating Curriculum

Tying it all Together; The Process of Integrating Curriculum. Presented by Rachelle Barkus David Day Nicole Evans Grant Genasci. Who we are……. . Nicole Evans: English Teacher, Academy Coordinator David Day: Government, US History Teacher

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Tying it all Together; The Process of Integrating Curriculum

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  1. Tying it all Together;The Process of Integrating Curriculum Presented by Rachelle Barkus David Day Nicole Evans Grant Genasci

  2. Who we are……. • Nicole Evans: English Teacher, Academy Coordinator • David Day: Government, US History Teacher • Grant Genasci: History Teacher • Rachelle Barkus: CTE teacher, Home Economics • California Partnership Lighthouse Academy; Education and Child Development Academy • Started in 1995

  3. Integrated Curriculum • What is it? • Connecting the students’ school world to the students’ life world • Why is it effective? • It’s good for the brain • Instead of separating knowledge into discrete partitions, the brain recognizes a web of patterns • The schema is built with both knowledge and application • What does it do? • Promotes critical thinking, problem solving, analysis, self realization, conceptual thinking • Creates a more meaningful educational experience

  4. Types of Integration

  5. Thematic Integration • Students organize their learning around their CTE focus and address the learning from a variety of disciplines • Start small: start with loose integration, ie: read Diary of Anne Frank in English while studying World War II in history • Communicate: find out what teachers are teaching and when they teach the subject matter • Time: Schedule a large block of time to start the planning process

  6. PLANNING….. We plan a summer retreat to iron out integrated curriculum and provide standards evidence for integrated projects. This helps create team cohesion for the year and we are able to establish goals and create our lesson calendars for the year.

  7. Planning Model • Curriculum Integration Chart • Standards • Post it note method • Make a connection • What do _______ and _______ have in common? • Keep the topics relevant to the students’ world • Create lessons that show the connections between the subjects and the relevance of life. • Why do I have to learn this??? • Create projects that use an assignment from all integrated subject matters

  8. Sophomore Level • English, World History, Child Development, Biology • Units: What is the Essential Question? • Goal Setting/Multiple Intelligences: Lifeline posters • Social Activist: Research Paper, Lesson Plan, Current Events • Moral Development: Holocaust, Memory Box, Night • Field trip: Museum of Tolerance

  9. Example Lifeline Board CD: Career Goals, Multiple Intelligences Biology: nature vs. nurture English: Year long goals, I am poem, favorite children’s book History: timeline

  10. Junior Level • English, US History, Child Development, Anatomy and Physiology • Units: Common Language • Game unit: Motor Skills, Historical Event • Personal History: Me Book • Controversial Issues: Families, Civil Rights, Scientific Ethics; Civil Disobedience • Discipline and Punishment: Positive Discipline, Bill of Rights • Field trip to Alcatraz

  11. Me Book • Social Science: religious freedom essay, places I have been, philosopher essay • Child Development: character analysis, multiple intelligence, ages and stages, personal history, left brain/right brain • English: Poem, myths, Full process essay • Anatomy and physiology: first science experiment, measurements of self, if I were an element

  12. Student Created Games

  13. Senior Level • English, Government, Teacher Cadet/ROP • Units: Career/College Ready • Newspaper Project • Senior Project: Community service project • Field trips: colleges

  14. Seniors: Newspaper Standards • Teacher Cadet • Ages and stages • Advice column • English • Novel Analysis • Full process essay • Conventions • Government: • Current Events • Political Cartoon • Political philosophy

  15. Senior Project Event

  16. Seniors Field trips to colleges

  17. Opportunities for Developing Integrated Curriculum

  18. Thank you!!Contact infoRachelle Barkus; barkus.r@monet.k12.ca.usNicole Evans; evans.n@monet.k12.ca.us

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