1. Restructuring a Middle School Curriculum
... themes so that subject areas become secondary to the theme (Weilbacher, 2001). No matter the level of integration, there are advantages and disadvantages to the approach and using it effectively requires a delicate balancing act between the needs to address the requirements of high stakes testing with the desire to engage students in what they need to learn. With integrated curriculum, learning ... for this initiative to work smoothly, teachers need to change their core principles regarding their teaching approach from didactic to constructivist. They also need to take professional devel...
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