Whole school inquiry frameworks are a fantastic way of developing understandings in the classroom. For the curriculum to be effective there needs to be a 'collaborative process where students and teachers have a voice ' (Preston, Harvie, & Wallace, 2015). Inquiry frameworks, encourage active involvement and collaboration from the students in constructing their knowledge which is essential to effective teaching and learning. Approaching learning through inquiry enhances investigation and the acquisition of knowledge as well as the development of broader concepts and generalisations that a single subject plan and curriculum doesn’t address (Hamston & Murdoch 1996).
Project-based learning allows for year level planning and also class planning, through this style of planning students will tackle a local problem. Project based learning enhances student’s ability to make connections through answering open-ended questions and applying learning to real-life problems, have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism (Curtis, 2002). This type of planning involves three steps: based on …show more content…
Secondly, with subjects being taught in isolation from other related information, leading to information becoming disconnected and the ability to make the material relevant to the lives of the students is lost. Integrated curriculum relieves disconnection and enhances student motivation by providing students with a curriculum centred on student-based, and often student selected themes. By creating these themes teachers are able to generate and create questions and meaning that the students themselves create, rather than design "connections" along the lines of separate disciplines developing critical thinking skills which are not encouraged with a traditional curriculum (Reys & Reys,
Project-based learning allows for year level planning and also class planning, through this style of planning students will tackle a local problem. Project based learning enhances student’s ability to make connections through answering open-ended questions and applying learning to real-life problems, have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism (Curtis, 2002). This type of planning involves three steps: based on …show more content…
Secondly, with subjects being taught in isolation from other related information, leading to information becoming disconnected and the ability to make the material relevant to the lives of the students is lost. Integrated curriculum relieves disconnection and enhances student motivation by providing students with a curriculum centred on student-based, and often student selected themes. By creating these themes teachers are able to generate and create questions and meaning that the students themselves create, rather than design "connections" along the lines of separate disciplines developing critical thinking skills which are not encouraged with a traditional curriculum (Reys & Reys,