Integrated Curriculum

Research has identified the following as a vital first step for designing an integrated curriculum unit:

• Determining an activity that includes the disciplines of interest
• Considering the disciplines you feel strongest teaching
• Clustering expectations from multiple curriculum documents
• Identifying a unifying theme or issue

Who can participate in planning an integrated curriculum?

• District Curriculum Specialists

• Administrators

• Teachers

• Anyone can participate

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of collaborating with students and colleagues to create an integrated curriculum?

• Professional Development

• Innovative Ideas

• Foster metacognition

• Diminished workload

Teaching to an integrated curriculum decreases the importance of assessment

• True
• False

Curricular integration represents a tradeoff between engagement and depth of knowledge

• True
• False

Integrated curricula alleviate behaviour issues, engage at-risk students, and lend themselves to differentiation.

• True!
• Nothing is that good!

Two key elements in developing integrated curricula is choosing an assessment activity that...

• Is fun

• Is literacy focused

• Is oral

• Demonstrates the ways students have met the specific expectations

Integrated assessments are a great opportunity to integrate "new literacy" skills such as critical literacy and media literacy

• True
• False

Factors that are integral to integrated curriculum include

• Teaming and Block Scheduling

• Homework

• Worksheets and Textbook Assignments

• Homogenous set of students

Benefits of interdisciplinary work include ...

• Increased student cooperation

• Improved quality of work

• Increased student ability to apply concepts

• All of the above