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9th Grade
Integrated Program
Tahoma's Integrated Program is a two year course which offers an integrated approach to learning science, social studies, language arts, and health. Three teachers, one from each content area, work as a team to develop curriculum which focuses on meaningful life experiences and student-directed learning to accomplish the learning goals. The essential learnings are guided by unit themes and thinking skills which link the three content areas.
The mission of the Integrated Program is to deliver a program designed to provide the students with the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for success in their personal and professional lives.
Integrated students meet for a full-day block (every other day) which allows for greater schedule flexibility within the school day. Students traditionally meet as a large group in the morning, then breakout and rotate to each of the three teachers throughout the rest of the day. Field trips, an integral part of the program are scheduled during the integrated day, do not affect the students' attendance in other classes.
Students receive credit for each of the content areas separately; however, many of the assignments and activities count in all three areas.
An integrated curriculum provides brain compatible learning. The mind makes meaning when it sees patterns and relationships; it seeks complexity. An integrated curriculum is organized by themes and thinking skills to build connections.
Integrated curriculum emphasize the mastery of learning and thinking skills that are necessary to process data in an information age.
Human beings have multiple intelligences. We can better utilize all intelligences when we integrate content areas, recognizing that there are alternate routes to the same destination.
Life is not a series of activities relegated to specific time frames. An integrated curriculum is more akin to real life experiences.
Integrated curriculum incorporates multiple instructional strategies to improve student learning.
Integrated students:
Build relationships while working as part of a team.
Are accountable to high standards.
Forge meaningful and long-lasting relationships with teachers and other students.
Prepare for the new state assessments and the Certificate of Mastery.
Must attend school regularly.
Have performed as well as or better on standardized test in language arts, social studies, and science than students in a traditional program.
Enjoy a variety of in-depth learning experiences and projects including a study of the Cedar River.
May opt to earn honors credit in any or all three of the content areas.
Learn to think about and articulate their opinion within the context of the content being studied.
Participate in essential off-campus field experiences that bring focus to the problems and issues under investigation.
| Integrated Instructors 425-413-5600 |
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Last Updated Friday March 04, 2005
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