Standard Three: Understaning and Organizing Subject matter for Student Learning
3.3 Interrelating ideas and information within and across subject matter areas.
Description of Practice
Experienced Practice that Exemplifies the Standard
The teacher facilitates students as they identify and integrate concepts and information within and across curriculum, relate content to their lives and previous learning, and use this to extend their understanding.
Maturing Beginning Practice
The teacher identifies and integrates key concepts and information within the curriculum, relates content to students' lives, and uses previous learning to extend students' understanding.
Developing Beginning Practice
The teacher identifies some key concepts and information within the curriculum, and attempts to relate content to previous learning without extending students' understanding.
Practice Not Consistent With Standard Expectations
The teacher presents curriculum without identifying or integrating key concepts and information, or dues not relate content to previous learning in order to support students' understanding.
What the classroom looks like
- Addresses the different relationships between and among disciplines when planning their curriculum
- Helps students understand that disciplines rarely exist in isolation with integrated lessons or examples
- Recognizes when it is appropriate to integrate different disciplines Coordinates and integrates subject matter
- Is familiar with the curriculum, available materials and resources
- Other__________________________________________
As teachers develop, they may ask, "How do I . . ." or "Why do I . . ."
- identify and integrate key concepts and relationships across subject matter areas?
- help all students to relate subject matter concepts to previous lessons and their own lives?
- help all students to see the relationships and connections across subject matter areas?
- help all students to apply learning from different curricular areas to solve problems?
- develop units and lessons that highlight themes within and across subject matter areas?
Standard 1: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Standard 2: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Standard 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject matter for Student Learning
Standard 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experience for All Students
Standard 5: Assessing Student Learning
Standard 6: Developing as a Professional Educator
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