TEACHING INTEGRATED TOPICS TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR EARLY PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Integrated teaching is one of the solutions that contributes to resolving the conflicts between the increasing amount of knowledge that needs to be included in teaching and the limited amount of learning time, and is also a solution to help students mobilize synthesis knowledge and skills from many different fields to solve real-life problems, thereby developing necessary competencies. This study is based on qualitative methods: analysis and synthesis of documents with research content related to integrated teaching or the ability to apply knowledge and skills; observation of groups of 3rd grade students in the process of teaching integrated topics. The article focuses on clarifying perspectives and levels of integrated teaching; concepts and expressions of the ability to apply knowledge and skills. From there, the article builds a process of teaching integrated topics to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills for early primary school students. Finally, the article presents the application of this process through a specific illustrative example of teaching the integrated topic "Buying and selling goods" (Grade 3).