Designing Lessons and Instruction that are InterdisciplinaryBy: Denise Hunt, Michele Talbert Smith, and Kathy Stiles

Interdisciplinary/Cross Curricular Teaching

involves a conscious effort to apply knowledge, principles and values to more than one academic discipline simultaneously

connects content and consciously identifies the relationships between these subjects

How does discipline teaching differ from interdisciplinary

teaching?

What impact does discipline teaching have on interdisciplinary teaching?

Why are both necessary and equally important?

How will interdisciplinary teaching impact

students?How will interdisciplinary

teaching help prepare students for an evolving globally connected future?

What kind of job opportunities will be

available in 20, 50, 75 years?

What is the best way to prepare students for those opportunities?

Multidisciplinary: The combination of several content areas that

are concerned with one problem, but without intentional integration

Interdisciplinary- involves a conscious effort to apply

knowledge, principles and values to more than one academic discipline

simultaneously

Transdisciplinary: “Beyond the scope of the disciplines; that is,

to start with a problem and bring to bear knowledge from the disciplines.

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