ABSTRACT:
Authors Lorraine Wilson, David Malmgren, Shirl Ramage and Leanne Schulz show how integrated learning works in the classroom.
The authors look at the contexts for children's learning - some shared, some entirely personal. They also outline how to plan for authenticity in the curriculum, how each activity has real purpose relating to something the children want to learn or do.
Included in the book is a framework for planning for children's continuing language development, which occurs as the children socialise, solve problems, reflect on personal experiences and take part in learning activities in all curriculum areas. Integrated learning for these authors is more than the integrated unit of work.
Because this book is based in sound theory and practical experience, it provodes teachers with extremely usable information about integarted learning, for example, the authors share their ways of:
timetabling, planning integrated units and planning for co-operative learning.
Included in the work are many examples of children's work, from children's self evaluations to poems they have written.
