Question 10

What are the pros and cons of teaching across disciplines?

Question 9

Now that you have tried it out, what would you do differently?

Question 8

What were the challenges and successes with the implementation of the unit?

Question 7

How did the students react to the interdisciplinary unit?

Question 6

Talk a little about your experience in planning the unit. What were the challenges and opportunities.

Question 5

How would these two groups (students and teachers) rank order the strategies in terms of usefulness?

Question 4

What do you think about the differences between student and teacher perspectives on the usefulness of the strategies?

Question 3

How do the strategies impact student learning?

Question 2

How do you decide when to use a content strategy?

Question 1

Please select one strategy from the list or another one that you use often and describe how you use it in your classroom

Strategies we used

Context Redefinition and Personal Glossaries
Verbal-Visual Strategy (4 squares and personal association)
Graphic Organizers
3-level study guides
Anticipation Reaction Guides
Polar Opposites
GIST
Summarization
ReWrite (music strategy)

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