INTEGRATING NEW LITERACIES IN THE CURRICULUM

1. Integrating New
Literacies in the
Curriculum

2. Concept
+ Innovative educators concerned with improving student
achievement seek ways to create rigorous, relevant, and
engaging curriculum as a way to realize curriculum integration.
Today, the subjects in the curriculum should not be taught singly
and compartmentally but rather become integral towards total
development of the child.

3. Three approaches to integration
+ Multidisciplinary Approach.
A multidisciplinary approach focuses primarily on different disciplines.
Teachers who employ this approach, may create standards from the disciplines
within a theme.
+ Interdisciplinary Approach.
In this approach to integration, teachers organize and capsulize the
curriculum around common learning across disciplines to emphasize
interdisciplinary skills and concepts. The disciplines are identifiable, but they
assume less importance than in the multidisciplinary approach.
+ Transdisciplinary Integration.
In the transdisciplinary approach to integration, teachers design a curriculum
within the students needs and concerns. Students develop life skills as they
apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills in a real-life context.

4. Methods of Curriculum Integration
+ 1. Project-Based Learning.
+ Implementation Outcome . As a result, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU), learning centers in the classroom can
affect the ability to focus and study among young children. In fact, learning
centers allow children to role play in order to understand and make sense of the real
world and their personal experience in it. engages students in creating knowledge while
enhancing their skills in critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication,
reasoning, synthesis and resilience minates with product presentation, and product
evaluation while reflecting on the entire production process (Schneidermen, et. al, 1998 in
Corpuz, 2014).
+ Implementation Outcome .
As a result, Curtis (2002) revealed that project-based programs show that students go far
beyond the minimum effort, make connections among different subject areas to answer
open-ended questions, retain what they have learned, apply learning to real-life problems,
have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism.

5. +2. Service Learning.
+It refers to learning that actively involves students in a wide
range of experiences, which often benefit others and the
community, while also advancing the goals of a given
curriculum. Community-based service activities are paired with
structured preparationband student reflection. What is unique
about service learning is that it offers direct application of
theoretical models.
+ Implementation Outcomes.
+ As a result, Glenn (2001) found that more than 80 percent of
that integrate service learning into the classroom report an
improvement in grade point average of participating students.

6. 3. Learning Centers/Parallel Disciplines.
A popular way to integrate the curriculum is to address a topic
or theme through the lenses of several subject areas. In an
elementary classroom, students often experience this approach
at learning centers.
Implementation Outcome .
As a result, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU), learning centers in the classroom can affect the ability to
focus and study among young children. In fact, learning centers
allow children to role play in order to understand and make sense
of the real world and their personal experience in it.

7. + 4. Theme-Based.
+ Some teachers go beyond sequencing content and
plan collaboratively and they do it in a more intensive way of working with
a theme dubbed as “theme-based”. Often, three or more subject areas are
involved in the study, and the units ends with an integrated culminating
activity. Units of several weeks duration may emerge from this process,
and the whole school may involve.
+ Implementation Outcome .
+ Using theme-based learning,
students can exhibit excellent on-task behavior and work collaboratively.
Also, students engrossed both as presenters and as an audience for the
half- day performance task presentations as they use a wide range of
presentation, such as video, panel, forum or colloquium, debate, sculpture,
music, etc

8. +5. Fusion.
+ In this method, teachers fuse skills, knowledge, or even attitudes
into the regular school curriculum. In some schools, students learn
respect for the environment in every subject area or some
incorporate value across disciplines. Fusion can involve basic skills.
Many schools emphasize positive work habits in each subject areas.
+ Implementation Outcomes.
+ As a result, fusion brings positive gains in student achievement
resulting from integrated instruction in the classroom . In addition,
students make connections among disciplines, values, concepts,
content, and life experiences

9. Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
+ 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 ideas are taught together,
although in different subjects.
3. Shared. This is when teachers use their planning to create an integrated unit between
two disciplines.
4. Webbed. This reflects when a teacher plans to base the subject area around a central
theme that will tend students to see the connection within different subjects.

10. New Literacy Integration in the K to 12
Curriculum
+The new literacy can be integrated into the K to 12 curriculum
across subject areas as presented in the table below. However,
the integration of new literacy is not limited to the identified
disciplines, the given learning outcomes, suggested strategies
and assessment.

13. Thank You!
+ Group 3
Janley Cymon Maala
Nova Cervantes
Mylene Sabado
Alexandria Graviles
Princess Vanessa Garcia