Reflection 10

Integration of Language Arts is not often found in the curriculum and practices of teachers for various reasons. One of the reasons is that the teachers are unfamiliar and second is that curriculum is not supporting integration. First, when the teacher is not prepared for integrated curriculum this would make it difficult for them to do, because they don’t feel comfortable with the method or delivery they have never give. Personally some teacher are not going to step out of their comfort zone because the result is not known, they are afraid to try something new so they rather not try it at all then to get bad results.
Another reason is the way that public school curriculum is organized: there is little time to actually plan integration. In the United States the curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep, so the teachers have a lot of content to cover and not enough time to cover it in. The teachers are been discourage when they see the curriculum and the constraint on time to teach, so how are they to learn to integrated language arts, if they spend most of their time planning the curricular content.
The way that I see this lack of integration is that some teachers have not been trained to integrate curriculum. So many of the issues with integration can be solved by training and helping teacher see that integration of curriculum can be more effective than to not integrate. Another thing is that there are some teachers that no matter how much training they receive they refuse to try something new, one thing that I have learned is that the hardest people to work with are the one that refuse to try something different. So the best way is to teach pre-service teacher integration so that at from the beginning the teacher can know and understand what curriculum integration is, and some of the benefits to using curriculum integration.