MODULE 4:
INTEGRATING NEW LITERACIES IN THE CURRICULUM
Concept Exploration
Innovative educators concerned with improving student greatest
support on the 1960s. The role of divers entities called academic
disciplines., clearly defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and values.
Approach to integration
The association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (2004)
presents three approaches to Integration and these are multidisciplinary,
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
1. Multidisciplinary Approaches
Focuses primarily on different disciplines from the disciplines within
a theme. It can be recalled that the previous, Restructured Basic
Education Curriculum (RBEC)
2. Interdisciplinary Approach
In this approach is to Integration teachers organize and capsulize
the curriculum around common learning across disciplines to
emphasize interdisciplinary skills and concepts.
3. Transdisciplinary Integration
In this approach is to Integration teachers design a curriculum
within students’ needs and concerns.
-Lampa, Johaira
METHODS OF CURRICULUM INTEGRATION
1. Project-Based
It engages student in creating knowledge while enhancing their skills in
critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, reasoning,
synthesis, resilience.
2. Service Learning
It refers to learning that actively involved students in a wide range of
experiences, which often benefit others and the community.
-Mamintal, Sittieainah
3. Learning Centers/Parallel Disciplines
A popular way to integrate the curriculum is to address a topic or theme
through the lenses if several subject area.
4. Theme-Based
Some teachers go beyond sequencing content and plan collaboratively
and they do it in more intensively way of working with a theme dubbed as
“theme-based”
5. Fusion
In this method, teachers fuse skills, knowledge, or even attitudes into the
regular school curriculum.
-Ansary, Amalia
OTHERS TYPES OF INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
There are different types of an integrated curriculum as mentioned by ASCD
2004
1) Connected
This happens when topics surrounding disciplines are connected, which
allows students to review and re-conceptualize ideas within a discipline.
2) Sequenced
This is observed when similar idea are taught together, although in
different subjects,that which facilitates learning across content areas,is
but requires a lot of communication among teachers of different
disciplines.
3) Shared
This is when teacher use their planning to create an integrate unit
between two disciplines.
4) Webbed
This reflect when a teacher plans to base the subject areas around a
central theme that will tend students to see the connection within
different subjects.
DOING CURRICULUM INTEGRATION IN THE CLASSROOM
Innovative teachers and schools prefer integrating the curriculum in
their classrooms as it improves student achievement and leads to an
increase in student standardized scores.
-Ansary, Sittie Aina
BENEFITS OF INTEGRATED CURRICULUM MODEL
1. It focuses on basic skills, content, and higher -level thinking.
2. It provides a deeper understanding of content.
3. It encourages active participation in relevant real-life experiences.
4. It provides connections among various curricular disciplines.
5. It accommodates a variety of learning styles, theories and multiple
intelligences.
New Literacy Integration in the K to 12 Curriculum
The new literacy can be integrated into the K to 12 curriculum across
the subject areas as presented in the table below.
Literacy Subject Outcome Strategy Assessment
Area Output
[Link] Araling Demonstrate Role playing Rubric
l and Global Panlipunan respect for assessment
Literacy cultural diversity result
Brainstorming
Brainstorming
report
[Link] Math Solve problems in Problem Scores in
Literacy the context of solving problem solving
business and drills and
investment exercises
aspects
TLE Business
Apply effective simulation Business plan
techniques in and and inventory
budgeting and immersion
income
generating
enterprise
Arts and MAPEH Create artworks Manipulative Project design
Creative and artistic works
Literacy design using Crafts
indigenous Arts studio
materials workshop
method
-Ansarie, Jannah