Breaking Down Silos: Evidence-Based Strategies for Cross-Curricular Team Teaching

All over the educational landscape there is a tremendous shift occurring, which is an interdisciplinary collaboration-driven shift. In the traditional schools, classrooms were compartmentalised into individual silos, with individual subjects taught in silo. Math, science, literature, and history are often kept separate and this is an outdated belief that knowledge can be organized and separated into parts and categories. But as educational research begins to find out, cross-curricular team teaching is capable of destroying these siloes, increasing student engagement, and achieving better and lasting learning outcomes. Cross-Curricular Team Teaching: What is It? Cross -curricular team teaching is a method of teaching by two or more educators trained in different subject areas that collaborate with each other in the process of designing, implementing and reflecting upon their instructions. This is the way which unites diverse views and knowledge to provide a complex, holistic learnin...