472-400 The Integrated Curriculum

460-305 Teaching and Professional Practice 3 and 472-300 Adapting the Curriculum

460-405 Teaching and Professional Practice 4a and 460-406 Teaching and Professional Practice 4b

This subject consists of two strands that will explore teaching techniques and their adaptation to different abilities and learning styles; and a range of learning outcomes. It will develop linkages with teaching and professional practice and build on the understandings developed in previous subjects. There will be a strong emphasis on reflective practice. Strand a will provide students with the opportunity to develop an understanding of how beliefs, attitudes and values contribute to the development of a professional philosophy and underpin personal practical knowledge. Content will draw on a range of early childhood curriculum approaches and models (e.g. High scope, Head Start, Te Whariki and Reggio Emilia) to explore and identify principles and strategies for planning, implementing and evaluating developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum.

Strand b will study conceptual frameworks for curriculum integration within the context of a curriculum standards framework using science technology and SOSE as examples of focal learning areas. This subject will show how an integrated curriculum is planned and implemented in the school setting, balancing the developmental and learning needs of children and their individual differences against the outcomes required for educational achievement, and how this achievement can be assessed and reported. The use of sustained and comprehensive teaching tasks will be addressed.

Written tasks equivalent to 4000 words

• C Gestwicki, Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Curriculum Development in Early Education. Albany, Delmar Publishers, 1999.
• L Arthur, B Beecher, S Docket, S Farmer and E Richards, Programming and Planning in Early Childhood Settings. Sydney: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.
• B Spodek and O Sarancho, Right from the Start. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1994.
• K Murdoch, Planning Classroom Connections: Strategies for Integrated Learning. Eleanor Curtain Publishing, 1998.
• M Woolley and K Pigdon (Eds), The Big Picture: Intergrating Children's Learning. Eleanor Curtain Publishing, 1992.
• T Lovat & D Smith, Curriculum: Action on Reflection Revisited. 3rd edition. Sydney, Social Science Press, 1998.