Cross-Curricular Teaching

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Cross-Curricular Teaching

• EDU 412/413

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Overview

• QEP Competencies
• What are cross-curricular themes?
• Two Perspectives
• Methods for teaching cross-curricular themes
• Controversial Issues
• Evaluation of Competencies

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QEP CompetenciesIntellectual

• Uses information
• Solves problems
• Exercises critical judgment
• Uses creativity

Methodological

• Adopts effective work methods
• Uses information and communication technologies

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QEP CompetenciesPersonal and Social

• Achieves his/her potential
• Cooperates with others

Communication-related

• Communicates appropriately

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What are cross-curricular themes?

• What is meant by cross-curricular?
• BRAINSTORMING

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Cross-curricular ThemesPerspective 1

• Education for Economic and Industrial
  Understanding
• Health Education
• Environmental Education
• Education for Citizenship

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Economic and Industrial

• Technological developments and their impact on
  lifestyles and workplaces
• What it means to be a consumer
• Respect for evidence and rational thought in an
  economic context
• Concern for the use of scarce resources
• Sensitivity to the effect of economic choices
• A sense of responsibility for those effects

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Health Education

• What is health education?
• People and their ways of life
• Learning to take responsibility for ones own
  health and that of their family and community
• Mental, as well as physical health
• Education about disease and disease prevention
• Becoming aware of the connections between the
  internal and external environment

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Health Education Contd...

1. Substance use and misuse
2. Sex education
3. Family life education
4. Safety
5. Health-related exercise
6. Food and nutrition
7. Personal hygiene
8. Environmental aspects of health
9. Psychological aspects of health

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Environmental Education

• Education about the environment
• Education for the environment
• Education in or through the environment

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Education for Citizenship

1. Community
2. Democracy in action
3. The citizen and the law
4. Work and employment
5. Public services
6. Pluralism in society
7. Leisure
8. Being a citizen

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Cross-curricular ThemesPerspective 2

• How can mathematics and science be connected?
• How can reading and writing be used to enrich
  science learning?
• How do events and issues in the social sciences,
  fine arts and humanities connect to science and
  technology?
• How can multiple areas be integrated to promote
  learning of the essential skills and knowledge of
  each subject?

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Science and Mathematics

• Quantifying the Real World
• Organizing and Interpreting Data
• Using Patterns and Relationships
• Operating on Numbers

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Science and Literacy

• Science and Reading
• Prior knowledge
• Comprehension
• Science and Writing
• Reports
• Journal Writing
• Science and Oral Communication
• Presentations
• Group Interaction

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Science in Society

• Transportation, communication, medicine,
  agriculture, industry, recreation...
• Changed the way we meet our basic needs
• Environmental changes
• Specific scientists and inventors
• Explain factors effecting science and technology
• Predict future consequences from scientific
  discoveries and technological innovation

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Curriculum Integration

• What models or themes can be used to organize the
  whole curriculum?
• Learn the knowledge and skills from science,
  mathematics, social sciences, humanities, arts,
  language arts, music, etc.