Integrative teaching strategies (ITS) aim to organize learning around real-life situations and students' interests by connecting topics across subjects. ITS can take various forms, including thematic teaching, content-based instruction, focusing inquiry, and developing generic competencies through multiple subjects. The integrative ladder provides guidance for sustaining student interest through diverse activities, relating to different learning styles, and recognizing success. While ITS enhances critical thinking and relevance, its challenges include the additional planning time needed and potential conflicts over priorities among teachers.

1. IntegrativeTeaching
Strategies (ITS)
Prepared by: Jerwin L. Patiga
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2. What is
Integrative
Teaching
Strategy (ITS)?
• is a well-organized strategy anchored
on real life situation that include
learners’ interests and needs creating
a variety of meaningful activities and
learning experiences.
• It paves the way in connecting what is
learned in school to real life world
rather than isolated facts and
information.

3. • The integration of the child’s
intelligences and learning
style is more effective. That’s
why, teachers should use a
broad range of teaching
strategies- INTEGRATIVE
TEACHING STATEGIES.

4. Integrative Ladder
The integrative ladder is the guide of the teacher in using the ITS.
The learners’ interest must be sustained in order to build
connections in context of learning and teaching.
1. Integrate
2.
Interconnect
3. Make all
the pieces fit
4. Make the
longway
learning
worthwhile
5. Make
learning
more
meaningful

5. Several ways to sustain learner’s interest:
•Use diverse learning activities;
•Relate clearly to individual learning modes; and
•Recognize group’s success through appreciative remarks
and rewards.

6. ThematicTeaching
Content-Based Instruction
(CBI)
Focusing Inquiry Generic Competency Model
Four Modes of
ITS

7. Thematic Teaching
It provides a broad framework for linking content and
process from a variety of disciplines.
The theme provides coherence; it gives a focus to the
activities that accompany by the unit.
For this strategy to be effective, teachers must collaborate
in order to decide a central theme that can be used to teach
a lesson or a unit.

8. Example of thematic teaching:
•Theme: “Philippines, a Spanish Experience”
•English: identify infinitives by reading a selection
entitled, “Philippines: in the Hands of Spain.”
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9. Content-Based Instruction (CBI)
•It refers to the concurrent study of language and subject
matter, with the form and sequence of language
presentation dictated by content material.
•This approach aims at developing the learners’ academic
language skills. (Zulueta, 2006)

10. Example: English and Science
•A lesson in English designed to “develop the
ability to locate and synthesize information”
may use content in science (essay or article)
such as “The Ecological System” which is
topic on the first year of science (BEC) under
“LivingThings andTheir Environment.”
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11. Focusing Inquiry
•It is an interdisciplinary approach that uses questions to
organize learning and it crosses conventional knowledge
boundaries.
•The teacher guides learners to discover answers to
questions, whether or not answers pre-exist.
•Learners become creators of knowledge rather than
recipients.

12. Steps for Inquiry Process:
• Frame a focusing question (linked to prior knowledge of
students)
• Present a field of facts (5 w’s and h question)
• Help learners connect or relate facts (interpret, give meaning)
• Help learners generate explanatory ideas (Generalization)
• Help learners find answers.

13. Generic Competency Model
•Generic Competency Model enables students to develop
"competencies".These competencies are acquired
through connecting one subject from the other.
•Personal development, social competence and
work/special skills are the most common competencies
being integrated in two or more subjects. (Losabia, 2010)

14. Example: Objective in Makabayan (Social
Study), "Identify material and non-material
culture and to affirm their importance through
preparing an exhibit about the culture of the
Philippines", can be integrated in the three
competencies stated.

15. Advantages of IntegrativeTeaching Strategy
•Help alleviate fragmentation of learning and isolated skill
instruction.
•Train students to think and reason at a higher level
(critical thinking).
•Provide instruction in a more relevant and interesting to
the students.

16. Impediments of IntegrativeTeaching Strategies
•Take more time in planning and collaborating with
other disciplines.
•Does not sound accepted as valid or useful for
some teachers.
•Result to competition among teachers with
regards to time, priorities and learning
environment.

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