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Integrative teaching and learning validates the importance of
students bringing issues and concerns to class and their involvement
in planning the course of study needed to examine them. Teachers
guide as students deconstruct the problem and identify areas for
research. They closely follow their students as they examine information
and help them understand how to use discrete facts in the context
of the problem. They teach them how to bridge to other areas of
study and bring in related information. Teachers help students
reflect on what they've learned and understand how they can use
it.
In the process of integrative teaching and learning, standards
are addressed and skills needed for standardized tests are strengthened.
This is possible because the actual process is exciting, affirming
and sweeps even the most reluctant, challenged learner along in
a wave of inclusion and support. In the end, both teacher and
learner have been engaged in a fulfilling process and been empowered
as learners together. Teaching and learning will never be the
same again.
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