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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

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with