Subsequent planning for the month, week and day emerges from this larger picture. Commercial formats are available for planning different segments of time, though teachers most often devise approaches which suit their own style of teaching. The key to long-range planning is to be aware of the balance between curriculum goals and the interests and experience of particular learners. It is this balance which promotes personally meaningful outcomes for students. Curricular integration and continuous learning are central aspects of maintaining this balance.
Curricular integration is perceived as more than a methodology or strategy for teaching.
It is an orientation that accepts the integrated nature of knowledge and the interconnected relationships that exist between and among all things. It recognizes that we live and learn in a complex world, understanding of which requires knowledge of the interplay between parts with the whole. It is this view that can provide a unified focus for educational practice, thereby enabling learners to make connections and transform new knowledge into personal understanding. Isolating one subject from another, and specifying discrete learnings within each subject, has given rise to disintegration of personal learning and fragmentation of school experiences. Integrating curriculum is viewed as one means of addressing these, as well as other issues.