Site Components

The website will provide several components for you to examine:



  • Who are early adolescents? How do they learn best? What are the best approaches for teaching them?

  • What is integrative teaching and learning? What is an integrative unit and why is it so effective in teaching early adolescents?

  • How do you develop an integrative unit? Follow a team of experienced and novice teachers as they build and implement an integrative unit about saving a city wetland. This is based on an actual case study.

    Join the team on a field trip where an exhibit about the global use of water resources initiates questions and concerns of local and state water issues. The team launches into another curriculum integration unit as they reflect on their city-focused wetland study and raise additional environmental questions. It’s another great opportunity to build an integrative unit and surf the web for resources and begin making connections.

  • How do you address the question of standards and tests and the pressures that we all feel to measure up? We will show how high interest in important issues makes teaching and learning more meaningful and still enables teachers to address standards and students to pass standardized tests.

  • Join us for a this great adventure as we take theory to practice through teaching and learning using an integrative approach.



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