Week 31: My Interdisciplinary Connection Map

Week 31: My Interdisciplinary Connection Map

As a professional and Teacher I clearly believe that for me to be an effective teacher and to be able to meet the differential needs of the students in my class I need the support and guidance of  a range of professionals. When looking at a Primary setting the children are getting a wide range of interdisciplinary connections.

As started in this Video students learn better when learning is Authentic, valuable to the students and reflects real life. This entails students to be able to comprehend challenging problems and view them in many different perspectives. This also enables students to implement 21st Century skills such as Critical thinking, Creativity, collaboration, and communication skills. 

So, in terms of my teaching and for their to be success and children to be engaged I have made sure that I make connections for their to be better understanding. For example, I make sure that I implement diverse cultures into my teaching so that they are able to make personal connections for their to be effective and deeper learning. 

I have also started integrated subjects more into my teaching and learning. For example, integrating topic and writing together as well as the arts. This enables me to able to create effective and engaging learning activities for the students in my class. 

I have also implemented more 21st century skills in to the teaching and learning in my class. I believe that collaboration is very vital as when we collaborate with others we learn as range of skills such as how to work alongside another person, being able to work as a team,  sharing of ideas and thoughts, gaining more knowledge from someone that has more skills. 

In terms of an area that I would like to work on it would have to be home School partnership. I would like to gain more strength there in terms of being able to have more of a deep connections with the students parents in my class and how I could get them more engaged in their students learning. In terms of this I would need to collaborate with my team leader and possibly other teachers in my syndicate and devise a plan as to how this could be developed more as I believe that when I have established this more effectively, then students achievement would incline more. 

References:

Importance of Interdisciplinary Learning | Ami Shah | TEDxTCNJ. (2017). YouTube. Retrieved 22 August 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mssKYQSStVs

Lacoe Edu (2014, Oct 24) Interdisciplinary Learning [video file]

. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA564RIlhME