INTEGRATIVE TEACHING TECHNIQUESRex S. JardelezaMAEd – Biological Sciences

What is Integrative Teaching?

It focuses on connections rather teaching isolated facts. 

The learners will be able to realize that subjects being taught to them are not separate and isolated field of knowledge, but are linked to each other in order to achieve understanding and concept attainment. 

It aims to connect what is learned in school to real life situations, thus it is more on developing problem solving and discussions of issues in the real world.

Learners will learn to relate what they learn and apply it to their own daily lives.

involves consideration on the learners' individual differences. These include multiple intelligences and learning styles. The teacher therefore must present the lesson in various ways that can cater each learner's uniqueness.

We must consider:

The cognitive, behavioral and affective dimensions in teaching must be given balanced consideration. Values must be integrated in instruction across all subject areas. Through this, we are molding "integrated" learners, or well rounded individual.

Integrative Teaching includes:

Content-Based Instruction

Thematic Teaching

Focusing Inquiry

Generic Competency Model

Content-Based InstructionContent-Based Instruction is an approach to language teaching that focuses not on the language itself, but rather on what is being taught through the language; that is, the language becomes the medium through which something new is learned.

IN the CBI approach the student learns the TL by using it to learn some other new content. For example by studying the French Revolution while using the French langauge.

The language being learned and used is taught within the context of the content. The theory behind CBI is that when students are engaged with more content, it will promote intrinsic motivation.

Students will be able to use more advanced thinking skills when learning new information and will focus less on the structure of the language. This approach is very student-centered as it depends entirely on the students’ ability to use the language.

Thematic Teaching

Thematic instruction is the organization of a curriculum around macro “themes.” Thematic instruction integrates basic disciplines like reading, math, and science with the exploration of a broad subject, such as communities, rain forests, river basins, the use of energy, and so on.

Thematic instruction is based on the idea that people acquire knowledge best when learning in the context of a coherent “whole,” and when they can connect what they’re learning to the real world. Thematic instruction seeks to put the teaching of cognitive skills such as reading, mathematics, science, and writing in the context of a real-world subject that is both specific enough

Focusing Inquiry

Inquiry-based instruction is a student-centered and teacher-guided instructional approach that engages students in investigating real world questions that they choose within a broad thematic framework. Inquiry-Based instruction complements traditional instruction by providing a vehicle for extending and applying the learning of students in a way that connects with their interests within a broader thematic framework. Students acquire and analyze information, develop and support propositions, provide solutions, and design technology and arts products that demonstrate their thinking and make their learning visible.

Generic Competency Model

AdvantageConnecting skills and knowledge from multiple sources and experiences·

Applying theory to practice in various settings·

Utilizing diverse and even contradictory points of view·

Understanding issues and positions contextually

Disadvantage

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