Academy Integrated Unit Resources

Course Integration

Here at CVUHSD, we encourage our Linked Learning Pathways to integrate courses and create learning experiences for pathway students where instruction centers around a concept, issue, problem, topic, or experience in a career-themed context. During an integrated unit, pathway students explore a set of topics in several standards-based academic disciplines connected by a unifying concept that reinforces learning and brings the curriculum to life in a meaningful way. Integration and making courses relevant to students is a vital component of Linked Learning’s Behaviors of Learning & Teaching (see BLT continuum below).

Why Integrate Courses?

• To make course material more engaging, encourage once reluctant learners to succeed in higher-level academic courses, and give students a running start at planning for college and their future careers.

• It looks like the real, thorny, and exciting problem solving that engages professionals in their daily work lives.

• It brings authenticity to students’ schoolwork, homework, and work-based learning situations.

   

  Integrated Unit Resources

   

  Below you will find the following resources for planning integrated units:

   

• Integrated Unit Design Guide
• Integrated Unit Planning PowerPoint
• Integrated Unit Planning Template
• Allocating Responsibilities Action Planning
• Behaviors of Learning & Teaching Continuum
• Evaluating an Integrated Unit Tool - "The Six A's"