Integrated teaching had lost favour because many teachers almost turned all such studies into language units and in the process real content became at risk. To avoid this situation teachers, when planning integrated units, need to ensure that objectives are selected from the appropriate Learning Areas.

Integration, whether based around a topic from a particular Learning Area, or a wider theme including a range of Learning Areas, is a common sense way of covering the demands of an overcrowded curriculum. More importantly, however, is the need to encourage students to see the connections between Learning Areas. It is this ability to see connections between Learning Areas that will be important in developing new ideas.

Multiple Intelligences is a newer concept defined by Howard Gardner and has the power to revolutionise schools as we know them. Gardner has identified 'eight ways of being smart'. All students have a mix of these intelligences and all can be grown proving the right conditions are in place. A school based on extending student's intelligences would place the focus on the development of all students' talents rather than covering curriculum objectives as at present.

Multiple Intelligences asks teachers to consider what 'turns students on to learning' and to the consideration of the joy of learning as motivation in itself.