Integrative Model
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS MODEL: The Integrative Model is used to help students understand topics that combine facts, concepts, generalizations, and what the relationship is between all of them. The Integrative Model is about getting students to construct a deep understanding of organized bodies of knowledge and form broad generalizations about them, while also developing their critical thinking abilities.
POSSIBLE DRAWBACKS OF USING THIS MODEL: One of the possible drawbacks in the Integrative model is that it is easy for students to become overwhelmed with all the facts, concepts, and generalizations and their relationship between all of them. Because of this is it essential to have concrete examples. Teachers must be structured and specific when explaining concepts, espescially to diverse students.
HOW I CAN SEE MYSELF USING THIS MODEL: The Integrative model seeks to represent information in a way that will help the students see patterns and relationships. I could easily use this in my classroom to show that history is consistantly repeating itself by showing students different wars and discussing what they had in common and why people through out history make the same decisions.
OTHER COMMENTS/COMPARISONS: It is important to understand the Integrative Model so that you can effectively teach topics involving an organized body of knowledge. When using the Integrative Model, students should be able to generalize the information given so that they may form broad relationships between concepts taught.
Integrative Lesson Plan Example
Some of the strong points in this model is the teacher will begin the analysis of the matrix information explaining how the genres are organized. Teacher will make sure students know what each category means.(setting, tone/language, typical main characters, and themes/subjects)This is very direct and clear giving students a better grasp on how to organize literary genres into catagories.
One of the weaknesses of this model was that the teacher will ask for student responses about the differences between genres and for responses about the similarities between the genres. Student responses will be written on board. This does not esure that all students will be able to answer and discuss. A way to include all students and make everyone has a chance to discuss is to use equity sticks.
This teacher deviates from the model by neglecting to provide any adaptations or modifcations for diverse learners.Adapting the Integrative Model for non-English speaking students requires you to give them more opportunities to observe and compare concepts so they can hypothesize about the relationships between them
Integrative Lesson Plan Example
Some of the strong points in this model is when the teacher explains the relationship of instructional objectives to purpose/goal. The teacher states that by working through an integrative model the student will be forced to compare and contrast information; the two matrices will introduce the students to women writers at the turn of the century and show how Kate Chopin embodies many of the literary changes taking place. The students will form generalizations about writing at the time and Chopin's place in the development of American literature, accomplishing both goals and objectives for the lesson.
One of the weaknesses of this model was that the teacher assigned each student a role. Within each pair there will be a recorder who will write down the pair¡¦s observations and hypotheses, and a reporter who will report back to the class at share time. This means that one person would have to write down everything they discussed and the other student would just say everything their partner wrote down.
This teacher also deviates from the model by not rxplaining any adaptations or modifcations for diverse learners. Teachers can adapt this model by designing data displays in pictorial form. Teachers must be structured and specific when explaining concepts to diverse students so as not to cause any confusion.