Integrated Curriculum Concepts

Integrated Curriculum Concept

• Emphasizes basic skills, content, and higher-level thinking for comprehensive learning
• Promotes lifelong learning by structuring education around themes, major ideas, and significant concepts
• Establishes connections between various academic subjects
• Gives students chances to use what they've learned
• Encourages active involvement in relevant, real-world situations
• Engages, inspires, and challenges students
• Provides a more thorough grasp of subject matter
• Adapts to a variety of learning preferences, theories, and multiple intelligences

Approaches to Integration

• Multidisciplinary: Focuses on different disciplines
• Interdisciplinary: Integrates sub-disciplines within a subject area, helping students understand connections between sub-disciplines and the real world
• Transdisciplinary: Develops life skills by applying disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills in real-life contexts

Learning Dimensions

• Learning to Know: Emphasizes concepts and essential understanding across disciplines
• Learning to Do: Focuses on disciplinary skills as the focal point, with interdisciplinary skills applied in real-life situations
• Learning to Be: Centers on democratic values, character education, habits of mind, and life skills such as teamwork and self-responsibility
• Planning Process: Involves backward design, standards-based instruction, and alignment of standards and assessment

Curriculum Integration Methods

• Project Based Learning: Engages students to create knowledge while enhancing critical thinking, creativity, reasoning, and resilience
• Service Learning: Involves students in a wide range of experiences that benefit others and the community while advancing curriculum goals
• Learning Center/Parallel Discipline: Integrates the curriculum by addressing a topic or theme through the lenses of several subject areas
• Theme Based: Goes beyond sequencing content to plan collaboratively in an intensive way called "themed-based"
• Fusion: Integrates skills, knowledge, or attitudes into the regular school curriculum

Other Curriculum Types

• Connected: Topics are connected across disciplines, allowing students to review and re-conceptualize ideas, but content focus remains in one discipline
• Sequenced: Similar ideas are taught together in different subjects, which requires communication among teachers
• Shared: Teachers create an integrated unit between two disciplines. A teacher presents the structure, format, and standards in making research while collaborating with the science teacher
• Webbed: Subject areas are based around a central theme to help students see connections

Implementation

• Curriculum integration involves combining different subject areas and teaching them in relation to a singular theme or idea
• Integrated curriculum improves student achievement and leads to an increase in standardized scores

Benefits of Integrated Curriculum Model

• Centers on basic skills, content, and higher-level thinking
• Facilitates a deeper comprehension of content
• Promotes active involvement
• Links various curricular fields
• Adapts to multiple intelligences, learning theories and styles

Multicultural and Global Literacy

• Multicultural literacy, according to James Banks (1996), involves the ability to identify knowledge creators and their interests
• Boutte (2008) defines multicultural literacy as the ability to apply knowledge from other perspectives
• Global literacy, as defined by Guo (2014), entails the ability to understand, interact with, and communicate in an interconnected world, taking action to address concerns like racism and social justice

Interconnecting Literacy

• Guo (2014) states that students embrace diverse behaviors, cultural values, and communication styles while sharing educational opportunities

Global Competence

• Global competence involves skills, values, and behaviors that prepare young people to thrive in a diverse, interconnected world

Promoting Global Competence

• Schools foster intercultural sensitivity by allowing students to engage in experiences that promote appreciation for diverse peoples and languages

Reasons for Global Competence

• Necessary for living harmoniously in multicultural communities
• Required to thrive in a changing labor market
• Important for effective and responsible use of media platforms
• Essential for supporting sustainable development goals

Dimensions of Global Competence

• Examine issues of local, global, and cultural significance
• Understand and appreciate the perspectives and world views of others
• Engage in open, appropriate, and effective interactions across cultures
• Take action for collective well-being and sustainable development

Assessment Strategy for Global Competence

• The PISA 2018 assessment includes a cognitive test on global understanding and a questionnaire on students' awareness, skills, and attitudes

Curriculum for Global Competence

• Should focus on culture, socio-economic development, environmental sustainability, and global institutions

Skills to Understand and Act

• Involves cognitive, communication, and socio-emotional skills
• Focus on clear, controllable, and realizable learning goals

Knowledge and Culture

• Relies on the knowledge of global issues, intercultural knowledge, similarities, and differences

Strategies

• Perspective-taking: Understanding how others think and feel
• Adaptability: Adjusting systems, thinking, and behaviors to cultural environments
• Openness: Respect for diversity and global-mindedness

Global Understanding

• It is a framework with four interrelated cognitive processes the competent student needs to fully understand
• Evaluate information -Explain complex situations -Analyze multiple perspectives -Understand differences in communication

Integrating Issues in the Curriculum

• Curricula should promote knowledge about other people and places
• There needs to be awareness of media influence in developing student values

Pedagogies for Promoting Global Competence

• Various student-centered pedagogies can help students develop critical thinking, respectful communication, conflict management skills, perspective taking and adapting.
• Cooperative projects can improve reasoning and collaborative skills
• Class Discussion encourages proactive listening and responding
• Service learning is another tool that can help students develop multiple global skills through real-world experience.

Social Literacy

• Social literacy is crucial consisting of the development of social skills, positive human values, and the ability to act responsibly in diverse social settings
• Teachers and students display social literacy in school
• Schools play a role in building and maintaining relationships

Enhancing teachers and students skill set

• Gain diverse insights, offer unique perspectives, collaborate effectively, and provide each other with assistance during challenging times

Types of Social Skills

• Effective Communication: Sharing thoughts and ideas effectively
• Conflict Resolution: Getting to the source of problems
• Active Listening: Paying close attention
• Empathy: Understanding feelings
• Relationship Management: Maintaining connections
• Problem-solving: Effective decisions
• Interpersonal Skills: Sharing, joining, asking

Improving Social Skills

• Improve by sustaining desirable attributes and eliminating undesirable ones -Maintain eye contact -Use proper body language -Know the difference assertiveness, and aggressiveness -Remain positive at all times -Behave as a social person -Start small if possible

Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)

• Encompasses perceiving, understanding, and managing emotions to guide thinking and behavior

Key skills in emotional intelligence development

• Recognize, understand, and manage emotions
• Recognize and understand the emotions of others
• Be sensitive to others' feelings
• Take a moment to pause
• Show empathy to others

Helpful techniques worth undertaking

• Strive to control thoughts
• Benefit from criticism
• Show authenticity
• Praise others
• Give helpful feedback
• Apologize
• Forgive and Forget
• Keep Commitments

Tools for Emotional Intelligence

• Workshops, literacy museums, mixed emotion cards, and illustrations of emotions (open-ended without labels)
• Also, the use of tools like biodots, bingo emotions, feeling faces and 6 second emotions assessment

Characteristics of someone With Emotional Intelligence

• Is a person of Empathy, self-awareness, curiosity, analytical mind, positive belief, manages needs and wants
• One with passion, optimism, adaptability and desire to see others succeed

People Skills

• Widely-used skills used to demonstrate social literacy at home, in school or anywhere

Thompson (2009)

• Exploration of how a person behaves and how he / she percieved irrespective of his/her thinking and feeling.

Honey (2001)

• Defines it as the dynamics between personal ecology (cognitive, affective,physical and spiritual dimensions)

People skills can also be defined in three sets of abilities

• Personal effectiveness or about how onecomes across with others
• Interaction ability or how well one predictsand decodes behavior
• Intercede easily or ability to lead,influence and build bridges between people

Essential traits for cultivating good people skills

• Good communication skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• The value of patience
• Tolerance and understanding

Improve people skills with the five A's

• Acceptance
• Appreciation
• Approval
• Admiration
• Attention

Essential People Skills worth noting

• socially assertive
• crafting a memorable presence -Mastering communication, -exhibiting lasting confidence
• exceptional conversationalist
• highly likable
• exceptional in decoding emotions
• pitching ideas correctly
• charismatic
• influential leader

Module 7

Media Literacy

• Refers to capabilities to know access, analyze, evaluate and create media
• Ability to critically assess the accuracy and validity of information
• Ability to realize that media show a representation of reality It's the process of assessing, decoding,evaluating, analyzing and creating It depicts experience of reading texts through technology

Media Literacy

• Enables understanding of technology, media literacy builds that role, inquiry skills, and democratic expression
• Represents response to complexities of the environment channels
• critical evaluation by disseminating features to others -Teaching to identify truth from false news

Media literacy helps individuals to:

• Learn and think critically, be consumers of goods and tools, recognize a point of view, media and understand its goal

Social Media platforms

• Social media is a term, websites such as online news sites, blogs, networking sites photo and video sharing ones

Media and Information Literacy (MIL)

• It's the combination knowledge, attitudes, skills with practices
• To access evaluate, use and disseminate information

What UNESCO said

• It is the set of competencies to search, critically evaluate, and use media content wisely

Aspects of media integration

• Reineck and Lublinski say that MIL Technical skills, critical attitudes and facts about technical aspects
• Baacke includes motivational skills, -Moeller says that MIL reshapes global issues -Groeben pointed that the work of media is the fostering of negativity

Seven Dimensions of media integration

Tool Literacy

• Ability to understand
• Resource Literacy
• Ability to understand form, format
• Emerging Technology Literacy.
• It is the ability to adapt to technology
• Social structural/publishing Literacy- Ability to publish forms through technology -Critical Literacy
• Ability to evaluate strengths and weaknesses

Advantages of media in the dissemination of understanding

• Ability to to educate people on health, people getting latest news in short time
• increase in talent
• increase in knowledge
• easy access

Disadvantages

• Lead to individualism in the long run
• Content is not appropriate to younger audience
• Is geographically selective -Can lead to scams, fraud, hacking -Causes decline in productivity -Causes Health Hazards -Can Ruin reputations

Integrating Ways to understand,

• How media can be taught to students for evaluation -Show them digital resources -Compare /Contrast sources
• Show them how to edit content

Skills of students

• How to possess skills inside a classroom
• Reflect and analyze patterns
• Determine authorship/Advertising
• Identify marketing means
• Gain familiarity and experiment through tools
• Show media arts /literacy
• Critiquing