Essay On Integrative Thinking Fit In Education

Benjamin Franklin once said “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” So, the question I pose today is how do we involve children so that they learn? How do we spark that want inside of a student to because a lifelong learner. The best way to build students’ knowledge and thirst for greater understanding is by creating connections. Having connections between prior knowledge, different subject areas, the “outside” world, and what is being learned now and in the future will help students to achieve higher levels of thinking, as well as, the twenty-first century knowledge and skills that are needed in the collegiate and professional words today. One way to make these connections is by using integrated thematic units. Inga Randle (1997) discussed the fourth grade students of Barbara Pedersen who were so eager to learn they would willingly skip recess to be in the classroom learning. Pedersen used integrated thematic instruction to inspire her students. So, by learning what an integrated thematic unit is, why integrated thematic units should be used, and how to use integrated thematic units teachers can become more like Barbara Pedersen and prepare students more for independent thinking and higher education.

Integrated approach to counseling is when you combined theories to cover the clients’ feelings, cognitive patterns, and behavior (Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Pschotherapy 8e, 2009). Each theory focuses one of these key components of a client but in counseling you need to focus on each of these to fully help a client. The key to integrative counseling is to have multiple theories function in harmony (Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Pschotherapy 8e, 2009).

In the novel "What the Best College Students Do" by Ken Bain he states that learning is not only discovering new abilities, it is putting a creative twist into it (p. 4). He places Paul Baker (a professor that taught Integration of Abilities) in this story because he emphasizes what Bain is trying to convey (pp. 2-3). Baker states that "This is a class in discovering your own creative ability and all you will have to help you with your discovery is yourself and getting acquainted with the way you work" (p. 4). Everybody has different viewpoints because everyone has different backgrounds, therefore, creativity is not only a want it is a necessity. To deeply learn something, students needs to have a

Integrative studies is the ability to form bridges between different areas of knowledge creating a network of information. Thus, allowing us to see each individual area in it’s own right but also how the areas do or do not function as a whole. A wonderful example of this would be a puzzle. Each individual piece is portraying a specific image or part of an image. Some puzzle pieces fit together while others do not. But once the puzzle is finished not only are you able to see how the individual pieces came together to form an image but you are also see how all together they form a whole a much bigger picture. Even the pieces that do not touch (relate) still have an impact on the situation as a whole. This is what integrative studies is. The ability to pull bits of information and assemble them to accomplish a goal or intent.

Emphasizes, through the IB Learner Profile, the development of the whole student –physically, intellectually, emotionally, and ethically.

Integrated Learning, is where I as an 8th grader can work with K-7 Ages. How has this applies to me? W/hen I grow up I want to have three majors Kindergarten teaching, Acting, and Photography. The Renaissance fair is when we work with others to perform sonnets and sing songs from the renaissance fair. We worked with an actor and this helped us tremendously. Going into the future knowing advice from Bill Jackson will help me earn my master's degree in

The main example I can recall where I knew and recognized the “integration of learning” concerned westward expansion through Manifest Destiny in the United States. I had learned about this event previously in grade school, so this was not an unfamiliar concept. Yet every time I was taught it, it was viewed as a positive thing, how it settled the country and led to the building of countless railroad tracks and telegraph lines. However, in my Environmental Studies class this year, this event had a much grimmer picture. The desolation of tribes and the pure fact that we justified our horrible and extreme actions in the name of God defined this event. I had always had the inkling in the back of my head that something was wrong with the picture

The purpose of public education is to enable students to be contributing members of society. Without it, the world would not be as we know it today in a very intelligent and complex society. Education is important in very many ways, probably too many to be listed. But I believe that among all other things that it allows students, by being educated, to live their lives in a way in which they can be successful in whatever they do. By learning about the trials and errors of those who came before us permits students to make well thought out decisions later on in their life. I personally hope to be able to better my students' lives by educating them about the overall curriculum and standards brought about

E.D. Hirsch in chapter five of his book The Schools We Need & Why We Don't Have Them (1996) asserts that the goal of educators is to give their students a high level of general competence, and develop individual's who can think critically about a diverse subjects, who can communicate well, can solve a diversity of problems, and are ready to tackle unfamiliar challenges (p. 143). The author maintains that although modern day educators are in agreement that these are worthy aspirations, many of today's schools lack the capacity to attain these outcomes and are hindered in their quest for finding and developing best practices by research that is invoked selectively by the educational community in order to preserve the status quo. The author alleges that a lot of research in education is merely material for ideological warfare and some research based practices, such as an emphasis on metacognition may actually be harmful to certain elements of the student population.

The overall theoretical framework follows the evidence-based integrative theories as a preventative measure. Trauma counselling and attachment enhancing practices use integrative approaches. The reason for the integrative approach is to build new neural pathways and reconfigure the brain. For example, an experience of falling off a bike and skinning your knee activates a person’s stress response system. That person’s body experienced a physical trauma, and begins to send alert signals for fight, flight, or freeze.

This situation does not present itself as an ‘open response’ environment where children are able to bring their own experiences to the table, which in this situation, could be costly to both student and the educator. Every student has different ways of learning and according to Gardner (1999) there are nine types of intelligences. They are Verbal-linguistic, Logical-mathematical, Spatial-visual, Bodily-kinaesthetic, Musical intelligences, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalist and Existential intelligence. The activity mentioned above only foster for the verbal-linguistic learning

For a child to fall under IDEA and have special educational services they must have an IEP (Individualized Educational Plan). AN IEP helps a student and guide them on their educational goals and objectives. All the goals and objectives must be long term with objectives in order for them to be met. The reason being that if there is a change in performance of a student they will be able to find a suitable solution to reach that goal.

In my opinion, coming to the decision of whether or not to fast-track grade 12 courses was a relatively effortless decision. Based on my interpretation of the data, taking grade 12 Chemistry and Computer Science would be way more beneficial in the long run. I wouldn’t need to spread myself thin during grade 12, and I could give the grade 12 courses priority in grade 11. To me this all made perfect sense, however, I understand how someone else might come to the opposite conclusion. While I tended to pay attention towards the idea of having an easier grade 12 year, somebody else may not have been able to get over the thought of having absolutely no friends in their class. One also could have ignored the same things I focused

INTASC principles are an important factor in teacher education. If followed and explored in the classroom, teachers can develop as exceptional educators. Not only are the principles important for teacher success, but for student success as well. If each category of the ten INTASC principles are integrates into the daily classroom environment, students will excel. For beginner teachers, the INTASC principles can be used to effectively organize their teacher portfolio and demonstrate understanding

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