Integrated Curriculum Reflection

As I read through the team’s paper, I could recall my own experiences in student teaching. They mentioned an integrating curriculum within other classes. Though I did not do that exactly, with the help of my mentor teacher, we were able to transform the health curriculum to hit each topic multiple times throughout each trimester. We focused on making classes more skills based so that we could mention how each topic relates to it and how it could relate in their other classes as well. Combining subject matter to make lessons more meaningful makes so much sense not only for the students, but for all the teachers as well. From my own experience teaching, when staff members work together on a single project, it can make an amazing difference with the students because they see their teachers working together to make classes more interesting.

This team did a good job talking about what kind of person would like this approach specifically. They used pragmatists because of the focus on real world applications it can have. Not only that but they also mentioned existentialist people. Doing this brought together some of the things we have been using in class and showing how they can apply within an integrated curriculum. Team 5 did a great job mentioning how some subjects are easier than others to have an integrated curriculum but starting small is exactly the thing we need to do to progress and refine what it means to have an integrated curriculum.