Instructor Discussion question:
What are the benefits of cross-curricular planning? Provide an example of how you might integrate multiple content areas into one lesson for a middle school grade. Describe how you could elicit support from teachers of other subjects on your grade-level team.
Peer Response
1. Jennifer :Cross-curricular teaching is a way that teachers teaching different subjects can correlate with each other and integrate different subjects into the classroom. An example of this would be in math class there could be science problems included in the lesson. This gives students the opportunity to see that subjects such as math can be seen in science as well as vice versa. Students can use cross-curricular lessons as a way to become better problem solvers while understanding the connection to the outside world. I also feel that the cross-curricular teaching would help students become engaged in the lesson as well as with other students.
Have a blessed day!
Jennifer
Response:
2. Kodi
Cross-curricular teaching, or training that actively integrates many academic disciplines at the same time, is an excellent technique to teach students transferrable problem-solving abilities, give school projects real-world significance, and boost engagement and rigor. For example, in one 45-minute class period, you might share some information about World War II (history), have the students take turns reading aloud from a book set during that time (reading/literature), and then have them compose a response (writing).
3. Johnna
Cross-curricular teaching, or instruction that intentionally applies multiple academic disciplines simultaneously, is an effective way to teach students transferable problem solving skills, give real-world meaning to school assignments, and increase engagement and rigor (Madden, 2018, pg.1). Cross curricular teaching allows for you to teach different subjects through each other. Students are able to connect different subjects to each other and learn in a more efficient way. One way to do this is through projects. Having students complete a science project and physical experiment while also writing an essay on their project/steps and results from it. That includes English and science mixed together.
Best,Johnna
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