Ms T, a grade 8 geography teacher, has created an interdisciplinary lesson plan on sustainable development.
Let’s look at the lesson plan and see how we can create such lesson plans to ensure high quality learner engagement.
Study and analyse this lesson plan carefully.
See how Ms T compels her learners to think holistically. They are thinking about economy (because they are thinking about actions that will include recycling, reducing and reusing), psychology (because they are thinking about human behaviour), science (because they are thinking about reducing the carbon footprint), language (because they are writing a paper) and mathematics (because they will be estimating quantities that they’d need to reduce or increase in order to make the environment more sustainable). They are doing all this in addition to learning geography (because sustainable development was a part of the geography curriculum to begin with).
Let’s see how we can plan lessons using the interdisciplinary approach by following a few simple steps.
Steps to Interdisciplinary Planning
Interdisciplinary lesson planning can ensure the development of critical thinking skills in your learners. Such instructions can also help students develop their cognitive abilities and mental abilities needed to become problem solvers and decision makers. Ms T already does it, now it’s your turn!
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Let’s start with the words. Any communication where words are involved is called verbal communication. The tone of voice, rate of speech, pitch and volume are all a part of how we say those words and all of them put together form paraverbal communication.
Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian-America mathematics teacher, came into the limelight when 18 of his students cracked the Advanced Placement Calculus exam with flying colours. If you like to watch inspirational movies, ‘Stand and Deliver’ (1988) is a must-watch movie based on his life as a teacher.
Learner behaviour is more or less their response to what they receive from their environment. While we cannot control the rest of the environment, we can definitely control what we provide to our learners as stimulus.
