Integrated teaching, secondary schools, teacher?s opinion

Integrated teaching is teaching in which the educational contents of subjects are interconnected, while the integrated educational content follows the goals of all integrated subjects (Rakoušová, 2011). It implements interdisciplinary relationships and connects theoretical and practical activities (Průcha et al., 2013). In our research we decided to find out: What do secondary school teachers think about integrated teaching? Are they implementing integrated teaching into their lessons and if so in which form? Or if they do not then why? We collected data by an online questionnaire. An e-mail with a request to join the survey was send to all secondary schools in the Czech Republic. Data was collected from December 2019 to February 2020. Most of the respondents think that they are including integrated teaching into their lessons. Over half of that respondents include it using project or modules or topics that are part of more than one subject. The main reasons for not implementing integrated teaching are that it takes too much time and that they do not know how to implement it into their lessons. In our research we collected data about integrated teaching in secondary schools in the Czech Republic. One of the reasons for not including integrated teaching into respondents’ lessons is that they do not know how. Because of that we are preparing an integrated module that they can employ.