Integrating 6-12 Arts, Social Studies, ELA DESE Summer Professional Learning Series Dixie Grupe, DESE Social Studies Director Debbie Jameson, DESE ELA Director Lisa Scroggs, DESE ELA Assistant Director Tom Tobias, DESE Arts Education Director Jefferson City July 24 and 31, 2018
• 9:00-9:30 Welcome! • 9:30-11:00 Degrees of Integration • 11:00-11:30 Content Integration in a Grade 9 Classroom • 11:30-12:30 Working Lunch • 12:30-2:00 Missouri Writing Projects Network • 2:00-3:00 DESE Updates and Wrap-up We have a great day of learning ahead of us!
How are you smart?
Michael Jordan, former basketball player, Chicago Bulls The greatest player in the history of the National Basketball Association, Michael Jordan possessed an intellectual understanding of the game of basketball. In addition to his jumping, shooting, running, passing, and guarding skills, Jordan had an uncanny ability to sense what other players would do before they did it, and adjust accordingly, even after leaving the ground. His predictions were based on his understanding of other players’ skills, tendencies, and personalities. Jordan could also visualize the geometry of the game, anticipating with great accuracy where a ball would bounce, how high he would have to jump, and how fast other players could move into position. Jordan’s long career required that he re-create himself as his physical abilities changed with age. As an older player, he couldn’t jump as high, so he developed a mid - range jump shot to get to the basket past younger players.
Mohandas Gandhi, political and religious leader in India Mohandas Gandhi’s life was guided by his search for truth. He believed one could find truth only through tolerance and concern for others. As a teacher, he taught others to master fear and to practice nonviolent solutions to problems. Gandhi developed a method of direct social action based on nonviolence and truth that reflected his belief that how one behaves is more important than what one achieves. Gandhi’s teachings enjoyed widespread following, ultimately leading to India's independence from Great Britain and the beginning of social change.
Oprah Winfrey, TV talk show host, actor, producer, educator, philanthropist Oprah Winfrey is best known as host and producer of her own show, seen by 22 million viewers a week in the United States and aired in 113 countries. She has won prestigious awards in broadcasting, as well as the National Book Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gold Medal for her influential contribution to reading and books through her Oprah Book Club. Viewers trust Oprah's judgment and suggestions, appreciate the skill with which she engages others in discussion, and admire her forthright candor about her own life and struggles.
What does es it mean n to be be intelligen elligent in our ur society? iety? What abilities How do we measure do schools a person’s value and intelligence? promote?
Through the Cracks by Carolyn Sollman, Barbara Emmons, Judith Paolini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO8Ykzw8zcI Turn and Talk What are your thoughts about how the students got into this situation?
Four Degrees of Integration
Enhancement with one or Subject more subject area only areas Integration with one or more subject Models of areas integration
Is it …is it integration or… enhancement?
Lemon meringue pie consists of the crust, the lemon filling, Three separate parts. and the meringue The meringue enhances the lemon filling and crust. The lemon filling is still pretty good without the meringue. The crust is good too.
Well, a lemon roll has has three parts: lemon It would be difficult filling, crust, and powdered sugar — and to separate the they’re integrated lemon filling from the crust. They’re pretty integrated
Integration Look-For List There are intentional connections between two or more content areas The standards for two or more content areas naturally align Two or more connected areas are exploring mutual essential questions through collaborative problem solving and process-based learning There is imaginative and creative application of skills learned previously through direct instruction in each of the content areas Evidence of at least one of the following 21 st -century skills: Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication Integrated subject areas are assessed equally
Six Degrees of Separation
“The prominent weakness of education Francis W. Parker is isolation of subjects; reading by (1837-1902) itself, --first steps and consequent ones; writing in copy books; arithmetic with an occasional application; geography without history, history without geography, ‘art of art’s sake.’ Indeed it seems as if the universal tendency has been to separate subjects as widely as possible; to completely ignore organic synthesis … No truth is more striking than the residential relation of all subjects to another .” --1894 Curriculum integration is NOT a new idea
“A curriculum approach that purposefully draws together knowledge, perspectives and methods of inquiry from more than one discipline to develop a more powerful understanding of a central idea, issue, person or event. The Walter Parker, purpose is not to eliminate the University of Washington individual disciplines, but to use them in combination. --2005 Curriculum integration defined
Non-Existent Fractured Stealthy Healthy Common Manifestations of Curriculum Integration Elizabeth R. Hinde, Metropolitan State University of Denver
• Each content area has its own knowledge, perspectives and methods of inquiry • Easily identified, scheduled, quantified • Most common approach in teachers’ own schooling and professional preparation Non-Existent
Social Studies Art • September: Chpt.1 Geography • September: Drawing • October: Chpt. 2 Native Americans • October: Painting • November: Chpt. 3 European Arrival • November: Printing • December: Chpt. 4 American Revolution • December: Collage ELA September: Unit I Poetry October: Unit II Short Stories November: Unit III Narrative Writing December: Unit IV Advanced Narrative writing
• Chunks of info from more than one content area, but no depth Read about….. • Content is disjointed with no disciplinary modes of thinking inspired Penguins, Presidents, Pilgrims • Little connection to curriculum, standards, or student’s life • Assessment focused at recall or comprehension levels
• Odyssey : Read Homer’s Odyssey, color a map of the Mediterranean Sea and make a pot similar to those made in ancient Greece. Assessment : Match the main characters in the epic with their key human attributes. Put the events of the epic in chronological order.
• Disguises content area as something else---Exposure, but not Depth • Main objectives and assessments revolve around single content area • Critical thinking and in-depth analysis of single content area Example: Poetry unit with rich historical concepts Stealthy
Stealthy Paul Revere’s Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 - 1882 Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy- Five: Hardly a man is now alive The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Who remembers that famous day and 1931, Grant Wood (American, year. 1892 – 1942), Assessment : • Identify the rhyming pattern and circle the uses of imagery in this poem. • Write a poem about a modern day hero which uses the same rhyming pattern as L ongfellow’s poem. Circle the places you use imagery in your poem.
• Connections between content areas are explicit and clear • Students and their understandings are the focus of learning and assessment • Objectives and assessments focus on multiple content areas • Learning and assessment focus on depth of understanding and application of appropriate skills from multiple content areas Healthy
Assessment : Pt. 1: Create a collage which What comparisons exist between visually compares the tenets of ancient Confucian and Taoist ancient Confucian and Taoist texts. thinking? Pt. 2: Write a metacognitive How do the writings of the analysis of your work which Confucian Analects and the explains Taoist Tao Te Ching reflect the 1) how the images in the collage comparisons in those two reflect those comparisons AND philosophies? 2) your thinking process and Make, explain, and justify decision making in its creation. connections among artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history. Healthy…. Vib ibrant? rant?
Steps Toward Integration Using Crosswalk Standards
Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently. 9-10 ELA Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating choreographic devices and dance structures based on established artistic criteria and feedback from others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process. DA:Cr3.1.I Analyze the role that people, businesses, and government play in taxation and spending required to maintain the public good. 9-12.GV.3.EC.B
Content Integration in a Grade 9 Classroom
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