In order to best implement interdisciplinary curriculum, teachers should allow students to draw connections between subjects on their own, and communicate with teachers in other disciplines to design communication that incorporates ideas from multiple areas. It is also important that teachers allow students to direct their own projects, where students can demonstrate understanding in the way that they have interpreted the material, and come up with creative perspectives on the class material.
It is also important that teachers encourage interdisciplinary, arts inclusive learning from a young age in order for project based learning to work. This is because student's first must be excited to learn and have developed an understanding of what excites them as learners.
What training do you think teachers should have in order to know/use the best strategies for integrating the arts?
ReplyDeleteIt is actually pretty simple and inexpensive! The best way to integrate arts is to have teachers discuss concepts with art instructors in order to develop curriculum that fuses the two disciplines together. This strategy requires dedication of time and some resources to teachers, and a willingness to learn on the teachers' behalf, but given these factors it should be possible to begin to incorporate the arts into STEM.
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