Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the

Curriculum
INTEGRATING NEW LITERACIES IN THE - Through integration approach,
CURRICULUM the students are expected to
understand the connections
- Introduction of an integrated
between different subdisciplines
curriculum gained greatest support in
& their relationship to the real
1960s
world.
- The design emphasizes the role of
2. Interdisciplinary Approach –
diverse entities called academic
teachers organize & capsulize the
disciplines – defined in terms of
curriculum around common learning
knowledge, skills & values.
across disciplines to emphasize
Concept of Integrated curriculum: interdisciplinary skills & concepts.
- In using the interdisciplinary
Focuses on basic skills, content & integration approach, there is a
higher-level thinking need to structure the curriculum
Encourages lifelong learning around common learning areas
Structures learning around themes, across disciplines.
big ideas & meaningful concepts - E.g. skills in Filipino the teacher
Provides connections among various hones the students’ language
curricular disciplines skills whole sorting content &
Provides learners opportunities to topics in Araling Panlipunan.
apply skills they have learned 3. Transdisciplinary Integration –
Encourages active participation in teachers design a curriculum w/in
relevant real-life experiences student needs & concerns. Students
Captivates, motivates & challenges develop life skills as they apply
learners disciplinary & interdisciplinary skills in
Provides a deeper understanding of a real-life context.
content - In using transdisciplinary
Offers opportunities for more small integration approach, there is a
group & industrialized instruction need to plan out the curriculum
Accommodates a variety of learning around student needs &
styles/theories & multiple concerns.
intelligences.
Interconnecting the 3 Approaches
Approaches to Integration
 These approaches offer an excellent fit
1. Multidisciplinary Approach –
for standards through a backward
focuses primarily on different
design process as teachers integrate
disciplines. In using multidisciplinary
standards-based planning w/ effective
integration approach, there is a need
teaching & learning practices.
to organize a list of standards from
 Teachers can use any of the
various disciplines around one
approaches at any level of education
common theme. Another way of doing
in a single classroom or in a team
it is by fusing skills, knowledge &
approach.
attitudes into the school curriculum or
 These approaches share many
utilizing technology across the
similarities, such as, the centrality of
curriculum.
standards & the need for accountability
- E.g. integrating subdisciplines
bring the approaches closer together
w/in a subject area.
in practice.
  Anchored on approaches to curriculum
integration. Methods that are processed &
devised for this purpose.

1. Project-Based Learning – engages

students in creating knowledge while
enhancing their skills in critical thinking,
creativity, collaboration, communication,
reasoning synthesis & resilience.
- It entails output w/c involves
accomplishing a complex task,
Comparing & Contrasting the 3 Approaches performing a presentation &
to Integration producing a project.
- Students start defining the
purpose of creating the end-
product, identify the audience,
do research on the topic, design
the product, implement the
design, solve the problem that
arise, and come up with the
product guided by a plan or a
model.
- Implementation Outcome –
project-based programs shows
that students go far beyond
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.
o Student assessment
considered teamwork,
critical thinking skills,
problem-solving, & time
management
2. Service Learning – refers to learning
that actively involves students in a wide
range of experiences, w/c often benefit
others & the community, while also
advancing the goals of a given
curriculum.
- Real-world application such as
community-based services
activities are paired w/ structured
preparation & student reflection.
o It offers direct application
of theories.
Methods of Curriculum Integration
 - It impounds integrative, o Students make connection
reflective, contextualized, among disciplines, values,
strength-based, reciprocal & concepts, content, and life
lifelong learning. experiences.
 Implementation Outcome - 80% of the o Students’ increased critical
schools that integrate service learning into thinking skills, self-confidence,
the classroom report an improvement in positive attitude, and love for
grade point average of participating learning manifest their
students. These programs foster lifelong effectiveness.
commitment to civic participation, sharpen o Motivated teachers & students
“people skills” & prepare students for work allow a classroom to be positive,
force. fun, and engaging environment in
- Students gain a deeper w/c to learn.
understanding of the
course/curricular content, a Other Types of Integrated Curriculum
broader appreciation of the 1. Connected – topics surrounding
discipline & an enhanced sense disciplines are connected, w/c allows
of civic responsibility. students to review & re-conceptualize
3. Learning Centers/ Parallel Disciplines ideas w/in a discipline.
– addressing a topic or theme through - It has shortcomings because the
lenses of several subject areas. content focus still remains in one
 Implementation Outcome – learning discipline.
centers in the classroom can affect the 2. Sequenced – observed when similar
ability to focus & study among young ideas are taught together, although in
children. It helps children understand the different subjects, w/c facilitates
social world, develop communication learning across content areas.
skills, & build relationship. - Requires a lot of communication
4. Theme-Based - collaborative plan with a among teachers of different
theme dubbed as “theme-based.” It disciplines.
involves teachers across the same 3. Shared – when teachers use their
grade, wherein teachers carefully planning to create an integrated unit
connect the activities to the standards in between two disciplines.
each discipline. - This requires a lot of
 Implementation Outcome – Using theme- communication & collaboration
based learning, students can exhibit between two teachers.
excellent on-task behavior & work 4. Webbed – when a teacher plans to
collaboratively. base the subject areas around a
o They can demonstrate an in- central theme that will tend students to
depth understanding of the topics see connection w/in different subjects.
as a result of their sustained
Doing Curriculum Integration in the
interest around various
Classroom
questions.
5. Fusion – Teachers fuse skills,  It includes combining different subject
knowledge, or even attitudes into the areas & then, teaching them in a relation
regular curriculum. Fusion can involve to a singular theme or idea.
basic skills.  Innovates teachers & schools prefer
 Implementation Outcome – fusion brings integrating the curriculum in their
positive gains in student achievement classrooms as it improves student
resulting from integrated instruction in the achievement and leads to an increase in
classroom. student standardized score.
Benefits of Integrated Curriculum Model Considering its benefits, there is a need
to implement an integrated curriculum
It focuses on basic skills, content, &
model in the classroom to respond to the
higher-level thinking.
demands & challenges posted by 21st
It provides deeper understanding of
century education considering its
content.
benefits.
Encourages active participation in
relevant real-life experiences.
Provides connections among various
curricular disciplines.
Accommodates a variety of learning
styles, theories, & multiple
intelligences.
New Literacy in the K – 12 Curriculum
 Each learning area can be integrated
as many new literacies as possible
depending on the lesson, the nature of
the subject & the objectives or
intended outcomes. New literacy
integration can take place in as many
disciplines as possible.

SUMMARY
Curriculum integration is the unification
of all subjects & experiences
Multidisciplinary approaches focuses
on the disciplines organized around a
theme.
In an intradisciplinary approach,
teachers integrate subdisciplines w/in a
subject area for the students to
understand the connection between the
different subdisciplines & their
relationship to the real world.
In an interdisciplinary integration,
teachers organize the curriculum around
common learning across identifiable
disciplines.
In the practice of transdisciplinary
approach, teachers organize curriculum
around student question & concerns
while developing skills in a real-life
context.
Curriculum integration models include
project-based, topic based, theme-based
& task-based learning while other types
of curriculum integration are called
connected, sequenced, shared, &
webbed.