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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

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At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. This takes careful planning, a willingness to step outside your comfort zone, and a focus on working together. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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8 Creative Classroom Seating Arrangements to Increase Engagement

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She works with students with autism and students with specific learning and cognitive needs and loves organizing desks into smiley faces, basic shapes, and even letters for creative classroom seating arrangements. She believes this approach can increase student focus, comfort, collaboration, and excitement for learning.

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11+ Strong Class Projects for Middle School Engineering Classes

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Consider having groups work together in a team-building exercise or letting individuals try their hand (get it?) Use the eco-friendly engineering project in a unit on sustainable energy, after students have learned about solar panels, wind energy, and other ways to power a home. at this project on their own.

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

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Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students.

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

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Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

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In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Together, we decided to experiment with ways that mind maps could support our endeavors. That is not to say that we didn’t encounter limitations.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Together, we decided to experiment with ways that mind maps could support our endeavors. That is not to say that we didn’t encounter limitations.