The Integration Of The Curriculum And The Change Of Teacher's Instructional Behaviors In The Class

The integration of the Curriculum is the important trend in the curriculum reform nowadays. It is also the basic philosophy of the curriculum reform of elementary education in China. At present, the new Curriculum system of primary school of China is mainly made up of the integrated Curriculum. Accordingly, teaching method change enormously. On the basis of the existing theories, the study on the change of the new Curriculum experiment teacher's instructional behavior becomes a main visual angle. The present research focuses on the practical teaching activities to probe into the universal laws of the integrated curriculum. It aims at offering some useful experiences for the future study of the theory, teaching, and teacher training of the integrated curriculum.The present research adopts the qualitative methodologies versus the quantitative methodologies with which the specific hypotheses are generated by collecting the natural and uncontrolled performance data through interview, observation and analysis of the human behavior from the actor's own frame of reference. The researcher's quality greatly effects the quality of the research. The success can be achieved only when the researcher has the insight perspective, noble personality, quick mind and the capability to communicate with the subjects.Since the September of 2002, the present author has begun the research work mainly in the G primary school in Liuzhou. Six teachers of such subject as Chinese, mathematics, science, sports, art, society and science are chosen as the research samples. The author collects a vast data by the means of observing the lessons, interviewing the teachers and analyzing a large amount of materials in many primary schools in Liuzhou. Analyzing the data, studying various kinds of reference materials and existing theories generate the hypothesis in this thesis.The integrated curriculum represents the educational idea that accords with the cognitive characteristic of children. The integrated curriculum is the concrete form of expression of the frame work of the integrated curriculum in which the traditional teaching method that separates and isolates knowledge is .required to transfer into the teaching method that integrates various kinds of knowledge and experience. Students become the center of teaching and learning. The teacher pays more attention to the individual development of the students. The teacher's instructional behavior in the class changes enormously accordingly. First, learning methods have changed. Inquiry-based learning and cooperative learning become the main means of learning. Second, modern technology is brought into the classroom. The teacher organizes the teaching by creating the real situation for teaching and learning. Third, the teaching order of the class reconstruct, the student becomes the agent of the classroom. The pleasurable teaching atmosphere is constructed by the equal teacher-student relationship and the implied and skillful class administration.Practice of integration of the Curriculum is a process filled with all kinds of contradictions. The teachers' exploration in the classroom motivates us to reconsider such questions as the teaching goal, the school construction, the specialization of the teacher, and so on. Only under the cooperation and joint efforts of the schools, the teacher and relevant organization can make the integrated curriculum really root and grow up.