Source: DepEd CURRICULUM CONNECTION (https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=hy3KrmPaA-g)

Integration – teaching by connecting their needs in meaningful ways.

Types of integration (only two)

Literature-based – have a starting point on stories and then other disciplines or subjects
will be discussed. Using children’s literature (storybooks, informational books, short
stories, poems, etc.) to teach students basic literacy skills or other subject matters.
Example:
Storybook – Alamat ng Ampalaya (written by Augie D. Rivera Jr, Illustrated by
Kora D. Albano)
Subject matter – science: various kinds of tastes (sweet, bitter, salty, sour, spicy)

Theme-based – we can tackle things based on a theme making lessons based on the
theme e.g. Celebrations like Birthdays, Christmas, Shopping at a market, Family, etc.
teaching students’ basic literacy skills or other subject matters.
Example:
English – write an invitation card to your friends.
Music – sing birthday songs in different languages.
Math – count the numbers of cakes.
Art – draw a gift that you want to receive on your birthday.

Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) – trying to make connections for better

learning. Connecting the new lesson to prior experience.

How to create an integrated lesson?

a. Choose a type of integration

b. Set objectives for the students (e.g. To identify diff. kinds of animals)
c. Prepare a set of activities (e.g. classifying the pictures of various animals according to
their habitat)

Strengths of an Integrated Lesson

 Students can participate in learning more actively.
 Cooperative learning is fostered and different ability and interest levels are easier to
accommodate.
 Contents will be more relevant to students, making them independent, proactive learners.
  The diversity found in such teaching can help teachers better address the needs of
students

Disadvantages/Weaknesses of Integrated Lesson

 Just because an activity crosses subject-matter lines does not make it meaningful
 Suggested activities may require time-consuming work.
 It may distort a target content.
 Ill-conceived integration idea requires students to do things that are strange, difficult,
or impossible.
 Suggested activities may call for students to do things they are not prepared to do.

Considerations in Creating an Integrated Lesson

 What are the interests of the students?

 What are the interests of the teacher?
 Will there be enough resources to teach?
 What do the school’s curriculum guides require?

“How learning is integrated within the curriculum varies depending on the teacher’s own
instructional and learning style, level of understanding of and comfort with various content
areas, the structure of the school setting and school day, the time available for planning
and implementing integrated curricula, levels of parental support and interest, and
administrative support and interest.” (cited in Atweter, 1995)