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Spring 2018 TLC: Connecting Key Ideas Across Content Areas - Activity 1 Resources

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SEED Team

Teacher Quality Standards

  • QS I: Teachers demonstrate mastery of and pedagogical expertise in the content they teach.
    • Element B: Teachers develop and implement lessons that connect to a variety of content areas/disciplines and emphasize literacy and mathematical practices.

Developing a Question The purpose of these resources is to help you reflect on the direction your work will take in this TLC. What are your strengths when it comes to weaving literacy skills and key mathematical practices in all content areas? In what ways could you connect key concepts and big ideas across content areas and disciplines?

Resources

Debunking the "Pointless" Education Myth

"Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks the common response that certain theorems and education will be useless in a child's future."

What is Integrated Curriculum?

This book chapter describes what integrated curriculum is and what it looks like.  The integrated curriculum is all about making connections and is defined through three different approaches: multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.  The chapter breaks each approach down for understanding and provides examples and scenarios for each.