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can occur between different subject specialisms. Here the extracts
deal
with the common experience - usually shared by all members of
the school group although there may be
some individual variation
depending upon individual needs and school
circumstances
In this extract SS3 who is working with the visiting tutor, the
Head of Integrated Studies, is leading the seminar in school whose
theme is the Integrated Studies Course. The importance to this student
of the learning environment provided in Integrated Studies is apparent
through the transcript and this interest continues through the year
representing itself substantially in his course work.
School A 2.12.81 Pl ei Pl/2
How many of you are actually involved in
teaching Integrated Studies? The course
aims at easing the change from junior school
to secondary - it takes up almost a third
of the timetable for Year I and II and the
teacher takes them so you get the idea
of one teacher developing a class relationship
as in the primary school. The teacher is
very much involved in the pastoral care
system, in tutorial work with the kids -
they may get sick to death of that individual
teacher, but at least there is one teacher
they’re identifying with for the first two
years.
Ml So there’s just one teacher with each class
for two years, is that right?
The process of learning is crucial to the
aterial that is given - the pupils rather
than learning concrete
develop skills, starts
information
off
very
much
they
with
the child's world, his own experiences.