Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Weaving Subjects Together to Create More Meaning for Students Interdisciplinary connections allow students to explore topics through a variety of lenses. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Science Techbook for middle school can be used in either Spanish or English. An interdisciplinary K-8 resource, STEM Connect blends dynamic digital content with ready-to-use lessons and hands-on activities to enhance core curriculum and cultivate valuable design thinking skills that prepare students for the future.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

A diverse, hybrid database containing academic journals and award-winning biographical and contextual materials, LRC supports interdisciplinary approaches to the development of critical thinking skills and information literacy. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

To meet the needs of Indiana’s diverse population, the grant has also brought in faculty such as associate professor Trish Morita-Mullaney, who specializes in English language learning, to focus on what is distinct about language and literacy learning for English language learners.

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Science Reading Interdisciplinary Languages 152

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

They also help educators build community and let students turn abstract knowledge into tangible and engaging projects. Students then design and build the objects using 3D printing and other digital fabrication tools, resulting in empowering and collaborative interdisciplinary learning. We couldn’t agree more.

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Interdisciplinary History Learning Languages 157

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus. Aspects of the world they took for granted or thought they understood become part of the knowledge they get from the class.” By the end of the year, “they can view the world differently.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Here’s how it might work for an English teacher: Imagine you’ve assigned students a persuasive essay and provided them with a rubric communicating academic expectations. In “the real world” as teachers say, challenges are complex.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

For Abby Longcor, Senior Director of the Tech Challenge, that’s what really sets the program apart: the interdisciplinary approach to engineering. “We She took on the role despite her lack of engineering experience, but it turned out that her English Language Arts background came in handy. Putting the humanities back into STEM.

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Art Language Languages STEM 161

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Utilizing interdisciplinary teaching systems to make core concepts, including English, biology, and mathematics, relevant for real-world applications and future career pathways. Elevating student choice and voice for understanding and exploring career pathways based on their unique YouScience results.

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Education Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 130

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the word “teach” comes from the Middle English word techen , meaning “to show or instruct.” Susan Fuhrman Teaching is not a fixed course with a defined curriculum; interdisciplinary skill set and understanding is necessary for proper preparation. I strive to reach every child.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. But the fact that there is little data should not be a proof-point that these models don’t work.

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History Critical Thinking Learning Interdisciplinary 138

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish. An interdisciplinary K-8 resource that blends dynamic digital content with ready-to-use lessons and hands-on activities, STEM Connect enhances core curriculum and cultivates valuable design thinking skills that prepare students for the future.

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Science STEM Interdisciplinary Art 130

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. These lessons should target all school leaders and teachers, especially special education teachers and teachers of English language learners. Evolve your programming.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS By Stacey Lloyd Grades: 6th-10th Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts Avoid writers block with a helpful set of narrative writing task cards. Slides include three writing choices each: two creative writing prompts, plus a free write prompt if students prefer that option.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Beth Blankenship , an English teacher who has figured out how to use competency-based learning at her Virginia high school, a school that still uses traditional grading. “You’re still assessing for the content, knowledge, and skill, but there is a broader set of skills that you’re typically also assessing for.

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Learning Knowledge Grades Feedback 74

Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

I have been running Cult of Pedagogy for over 10 years now, and in that time there have been a few topics I have learned to steer clear of, because they incite so much heated debate and I don’t feel equipped with enough background knowledge to respond in an informed, responsible way. We want the letters and sounds to be the go-to.

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Reading Languages Language Science 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. Why did it take a pandemic for us to realize that education is just as much about self-knowledge as it is about the subject you are studying?

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Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. Why did it take a pandemic for us to realize that education is just as much about self-knowledge as it is about the subject you are studying?

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Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 202

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

the knowledge economy), and forms of knowledge (e.g., These moves align with the ways experts organize and apply knowledge in their fields. Analogical thinking helps students see the broader relevance of their studies and prepares them to apply knowledge in new contexts. an academic discipline), social worlds (e.g.,

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

the knowledge economy), and forms of knowledge (e.g., These moves align with the ways experts organize and apply knowledge in their fields. Analogical thinking helps students see the broader relevance of their studies and prepares them to apply knowledge in new contexts. an academic discipline), social worlds (e.g.,

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The organization describes its ultimate goal as graduating more students who have fundamental knowledge and skills, collaborate well, think creatively and are motivated to keep learning throughout their lives. When I first came to this school, I felt as if student voices didn’t matter. Photo by Brylie Christopher Oxley / Wikimedia Commons.

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High School High School Schools Assignments 184

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” I’m concerned,” said Gabrielle Ballard, an undergraduate at MIT already pursuing an interdisciplinary program that blends the humanities and engineering, who moderated the teach-in this week.

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Science Ethics Interdisciplinary Education 162