Curriculum Integration Integration involves three separate issues. Integration of all types of students and their different learning styles. Integration of assessment and learning. Integration of instruction that is appropriate to the student's age, group appropriate, and individually appropriate. Curriculum Integration Educators can determine their readiness for curriculum integration by examining the extent to which four conditions are present in their school.
Integrated curriculum brings together academic disciplines in themes or topics.
One condition for successfully implementing this approach is having a collaborative school culture in which students collaborate with each other and with teachers, and teachers collaborate with each other and with students. This means dissolving the boundaries between classrooms and teaching departments. A second condition is that school faculty share common beliefs about teaching and learning. This is especially important when forming instructional teams. Teachers have often cited incompatible beliefs as being a major hindrance to interdisciplinary teamed instruction.