Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Partner with faculty from other departments to develop projects that incorporate
aspects from different disciplines.
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Make use of pedagogies that lend themselves to interdisciplinary teaching
such as service learning, teaching with the local environment/
campus, teaching systems thinking and teaching with real world examples.
Team Teaching
While potentially expensive, there is substantial added value in true team-teaching
of courses. In addition to bringing more expertise to instruction, team teaching allows
students to sort through and then integrate multiple perspectives, hypotheses, and opinions.
Team teachers can also serve as role models to demonstrate effective interdisciplinary
cooperation in tackling a problem or a solution.
Traditional team teaching involves two or more instructors actively involved in
teaching a cohort of students in a single course. This popular method for teaching in an
interdisciplinary fashion and may involve instructors from the same department with different
specialties or from different departments. The coursework is generally integrated into a
single syllabus for a single class. Course work can be either assessed by both instructors to
ensure the course outcomes are being addressed or done by each faculty independently
based on the assignment topic.
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Check Your Progress - 2
To promote Interdisciplinary learning,
a)
Heads of institutions must ensure that _____________
b)
Individual departments of different disciplines _____________
c)
faculty, should have in depth knowledge and understanding of _____________
d)
Training sessions may be conducted to assist teachers _____________
e)
Teachers need to follow strategies like_____________
2.2.4. Let Us Summarise
The following table summarises the differences between multidisciplinary , interdisciplinary
and disciplinary learning