Sentences with phrase «interdisciplinary approach to teaching»

Environmental Education is an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning in, about, and from the environment.

She's part of a group of six teachers that brought an interdisciplinary approach to teaching Facing History's «Race and Membership» unit last year at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.As part of the Innovative Schools Network, Blackstone Academy created a unit that takes all aspects of discussing race and integrated it into a cohesive series of lessons that combines history; English Language Arts (ELA); and biology classes.

There is an increasing demand for an interdisciplinary approach to teaching, but providing inspiring and achievable lessons is no easy task.

The grants — which will support the development of frameworks in such core subjects as English, history, geography, civics, and the arts — also are intended to foster interdisciplinary approaches to teaching.

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Majeed's unusually broad academic background has taught him that physicians and scientists should collaborate more on interdisciplinary research and take a more holistic approach to disease mechanisms.

«We are looking to carve out a special niche amongst universities in Ontario,» says William Smith, dean of the faculty of science, «From the get - go we have been about combining advanced teaching technologies with an innovative interdisciplinary approach to both education and high - quality research.»

She has also taught and co-developed courses in heat transfer and interdisciplinary approaches to energy decision - making.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject specialisms.

These skills require an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach to teaching and learning.

Second, most educators are familiar with task modeling - an instructional strategy that promotes learning through observation - which is fundamental to interdisciplinary teaching since most students are unfamiliar with interdisciplinary approaches to learning, so instructors do not have to learn an entirely new form of pedagogy.

Recent work in using problem - based learning in teaching science to high ability learners at the elementary level suggests the efficacy of the approach in enhancing student and teacher motivation (VanTassel - Baska, Bass, Ries, Poland, & Avery, 1998); in improving problem - finding abilities (Gallagher, Stepien, & Rosenthal, 1992); and in promoting intra and interdisciplinary learning (Stepien, Gallagher, & Workman, 1993).

Many middle schools» creative approaches to programing and instruction (through interdisciplinary team teaching, interest - based activities, thematic schoolwide events, creative problem solving, and hands - on experience) and responsiveness to young adolescents» developmental needs embody the best features of effective gifted programs.

I'm drawn to an interdisciplinary humanities approach to teaching as a strategy to remind students of the infinite parts of self they can utilize and build to better understand themselves as humans.

FUNecole ® lessons are designed on 21st century interdisciplinary themes such as global awareness and environmental literacy enabling you to follow either a standalone or integrated approach to teaching the curriculum.

«Our Bren School has led the way to an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that integrates environmental science, management, economics, and policy in our teaching and research.

Some of our colleagues at UNLV have conceptualized the evolution of legal writing scholarship as a series of leaps.2 The first big leap was to take an interdisciplinary approach to writing about teaching writing.3 The second leap was to build community by creating spaces of our own, such as LWI, the Journal, and then later, JAWLD.4 The third leap was to develop a rich, often interdisciplinary approach to studying and writing about legal writing.5 In their article, Linda Berger, Linda Edwards, and Terry Pollman suggested — hoped, perhaps, and I along with them — that scholarship relating to legal analysis, skills and practice is no longer considered inferior to traditional legal scholarship.6 The growing number of schools where legal writing faculty have achieved equal status due at least in part to their legal writing scholarship suggests we have made significant progress as a result of these leaps.7

Demonstrated leadership in human relations and client centered approach to learning, teaching and social media marketing that supports globalized and interdisciplinary competencies and thorough sensitivity to diversity issues.