Sentences with phrase «of interdisciplinary learning»

One of the most frequent forms of interdisciplinary learning is the integration integration of academic and technical content.

At the convening, we saw examples of interdisciplinary learning with authentic assessments — creating units around an essential question culminating in a demonstration of student learning.

Thus, the very structure of interdisciplinary learning is consistent with the core features of significant learning, so students are expected to find interdisciplinary education engaging and thus an effective way to advance their understanding of topics under investigation.

For me, the real beauty of interdisciplinary learning (and teaching) lies in the understanding that we live in an integrated world.

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Rotman's evolving curriculum reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary learning opportunities and newly emerging fields of study.

Christian faith is open to... indeed, welcomes... interdisciplinary and inter-faith dialogue, not only because it believes it has something to share, but because it knows it has much to learn from the various intellectual disciplines and other religions, as well as from the developments of a technological and electronic society.

A thread of creativity runs through all the interdisciplinary classes of a Waldorf curriculum, and the emphasis is on experiential learning and the development of imagination.

Environments of continuous learning: IMH 2 - day masterclass in communities and in - service training, followed by sustainable monthly interdisciplinary practitioner network meetings

She has 20 years experience delivering clinical psychology services to children and families which included the establishment of an infant mental health service framework in primary care psychology setting and co-creating an interdisciplinary infant mental health (IMH) training model and learning network group.

As for learning the biology, this, too, is a vital aspect of the interdisciplinary field I work in.

The interdisciplinary team of Harvard researchers, in collaboration with MIT and Samsung, developed a large - scale, computer - driven screening process, called the Molecular Space Shuttle, that incorporates theoretical and experimental chemistry, machine learning and cheminformatics to quickly identify new OLED molecules that perform as well as, or better than, industry standards.

They work in interdisciplinary teams, but each scientist needs to learn something of the other specialisations to understand catalysis.

AERA is the largest interdisciplinary research association in the United States devoted to the scientific study of education and learning.

Duckor is a former high school teacher at a nationally recognized high school in East Harlem that pioneered Habits of Mind, which emphasizes interdisciplinary and project - based learning.

She stresses that candidates interested in an interdisciplinary research project should be flexible and willing to learn a lot of new skills and knowledge to be attractive on the job market.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Genomics and Society (CGS) at UNC Chapel Hill, I am learning about a range of rapidly evolving ELSI issues and how to approach them from an interdisciplinary perspective.

An interdisciplinary junior research group at the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools at the University of Freiburg (led by computer scientist Dr. Michael Tangermann) has developed a self - learning algorithm that allows predictions concerning the precision of an action.

It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is Europe's premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide.It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002.

This project will develop and validate an interdisciplinary instrument — a Quantitative Biology Concept Inventory (QBCI)-- which will allow assessment of mathematics and quantitative concept learning goals in the context of concrete, real - world life science data examples and models.

This standards - based, interdisciplinary STEM project focuses on the engineering aspects and potential science of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) while incorporating elements of project - based learning.

The MSc programme in Mobilities & Urban Studies is a two years full - time study based on a combination of academic, mobile labs, problem - based learning (PBL) and interdisciplinary approaches based on a multitude of work and evaluation methods.

To jump start research and get to the bottom of microbiome function and properties, a consortium of eminent U.S. scientists have proposed an interdisciplinary, unified program to learn more about these little - understood powerhouses of our world.

Further initiatives include increasing interdisciplinary projects and pathway models of study that reflect the contemporary need for a broader and richer learning framework.

As Katie Quinlan stated in an Oxford Open Learning blog, «Without interdisciplinary dialogue, the potential benefits of this field of research are lost to the pages of academic journals rather than applied to the learning environments and methods of teaching that will benefit learners today and in the futureLearning blog, «Without interdisciplinary dialogue, the potential benefits of this field of research are lost to the pages of academic journals rather than applied to the learning environments and methods of teaching that will benefit learners today and in the futurelearning environments and methods of teaching that will benefit learners today and in the future».

At Minnesota's School of Environmental Studies, high school students learn about becoming an expert and solving real problems — doing in - depth, interdisciplinary research using innovative technology that results in practical applications.

KI Europe, for example, is an education company that has always been mindful of including an element of flexibility in its products to schools via the «maker - centred learning environment», which its education sales director Kevin Geeves describes as «founded on interdisciplinary sharing and learning in an active form, allowing participants to express their curiosity and share their learnings across disciplines.»

While libraries and makerspaces are both interdisciplinary, resource - filled places of informal learning, each serves distinct purposes for enriching student experience and school culture.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

Flexible learning, interdisciplinary investigations and a focus on understanding will continue to drive a need to reform assessment as we move towards our goal of personalised learning.

Participants learn how to design interdisciplinary curriculum that attends to the ethical, aesthetic, and social dimensions of learning, and they explore instructional methods that deepen student engagement, model intellectual curiosity and rigor, and make learning more visible.

In 1984, he told The New York Times that his initiation into the love of learning, and of learning how to learn, «was revealed to me by my [Boston Latin School] masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition, that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.»

Using the 45 minutes of daily team - planning time, the teachers craft a sophisticated curriculum featuring monthly project - learning interdisciplinary units custom tailored for the school's population.

It also requires us to tackle one of the biggest challenges education faces — interdisciplinary learning.

Project - based, interdisciplinary learning requires teaching teams to integrate a theme or project into rigorous lesson plans from a variety of disciplines, and to coordinate delivery among teachers and across classrooms so that projects progress apace and students meet curriculum goals.

In fact, they intended to only choose one or two, but received so many wonderful applications that they extended it to three students: Zoe Blatt, who creates large - scale knitted soft sculpture; Brendon Snyder, who's working on a graphic novel about the theory of Multiple Intelligences; and Azucena Verdin, who focuses on a dance performance exploring interdisciplinary learning.

Traditional methods of evaluation, which have many flaws on their own, are not well - suited for interdisciplinary, multi-modal learning.

Because we believe that students learn best when they have opportunities to apply what they are learning, the driving force behind PSP is a year - long practice or research experience that provides real - world application of content and skills acquired through interdisciplinary coursework.

«We had been experimenting with breaking up the school into learning communities, we called them «academies,» and we were doing a lot of project - based, interdisciplinary learning,» Lenz explains.

The Mind, Brain, and Education Program (MBE) is committed to interdisciplinary thinking — to integrating biology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology and the social sciences to understand how people learn and develop, MBE students learn to think in terms of systems.

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem - based Learning, 1 (2).

Today a core group of educators is hard at work, through a committee called Curriculum 2010, to meld the best aspects of project - based and interdisciplinary learning with the school district's core curriculum and state standards.

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem - based Learning, 3 (1): 12 - 43.

It calls for flexible schedules, more project - based and interdisciplinary learning, a more engaging and real world — based course of study, increased opportunity for teachers to work in teams, and better integration of technology across subject areas.

Our students who struggled to stay focused or were generally uninterested in multiplication, or math in general, were leading during this time — the incorporation of arts and interdisciplinary learning had set a spark in them.

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem - Based Learning, 3 (1).

In a Project Zero classroom, teachers are also learners who model intellectual curiosity and rigor, interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry, and sensitivity to the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of learning.

Their 3 - I (Interdisciplinary, Inter-school & International) Project Learning experience focuses on environmental protection of local communities.

But it also includes entries like the School of Arts and Sciences in Tallahassee, Florida, which features interdisciplinary learning, portfolios, and multi-age classrooms, and does without grades, report cards, or kids sitting in rows.

These interdisciplinary learning spaces have carved out time to teach thinking, to step out of the race to cover content and build the generic skills that students need.