Tyr's Pedagogy Pick-Me-Up Videos
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Everyone knows that courses are just about one thing. English courses are about English. Art courses are about art. Physics courses are about spherical cows. This is what everyone knows.
But it's wrong.
Nothing in education actually exists in a vacuum. Right now, no matter what course you're thinking about, the odds are you're thinking about that course using either words or pictures, a.k.a. Language and Art. And while that's almost a joke of an example, the truth is that it's just as easy to bring in almost any subject into any other subject.
Accounting and Public Speaking? Does making a presentation in front of a board of directors ring a bell?
Welding and Astrophysics? Tell me, have you ever seen a movie set in space?
Ethics and AI programming? Hoo boy.
The thing is, everyone knows that math courses are just about math because that's how it gets presented to them. Blocks of time are assigned to one subject or another. Projects that are tied to multiple subjects never get labeled as such (it's just drawing a graph in math class; it's not art). Entire degrees are earned inside a single building named after one discipline.
But recent research has been overwhelmingly positive on the benefits of these cross-disciplinary studies (a.k.a. Integrated learning, multi-disciplinary studies, cross-curriculum teaching, and so many, many more). And, when you get right down to it, it's how life actually works. It's what our students are actually going to do, no matter what field they go into, because you can't even walk through your own home and only encounter a single discipline's worth of material.
If that sounds like something worth pursuing, then feel free to read a few of these articles, and give Tyr a call anytime for additional tips, tricks, advice, or even just to use as a wall to bounce ideas off of. x5723.
A paper from the NSTA (National Science Teaching Association) that's quite a good read (and which covers what I've covered in much more depth)
Eduporium's guide to Project-Based Learning models of cross-curriculum activities
Here's several strategies for integrating other subjects into Physical Education (or for integrating physical education into other subjects)