E ' the High Tech High (an elementary school, two middle and five above) to San Diego to hold the primacy of access to 100% of his students at the university through an integrated curriculum of interdisciplinary studies. A success that in 2000, when he opened with a single class, was not taken for granted but which arrived on time thanks to a complete restructuring of the academic.
A revolution began in the late 90's thanks to research like
"The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies " by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman (presented at the annual symposium of the American Educational Research Association), which showed how the curricula of interdisciplinary study integrated door to "positive educational outcomes"
- comprehension, memory and application of general concepts better;
- understanding interconnections and the development of global perspectives, viewpoints and multiple values \u200b\u200bincreased;
- greater ability to make decisions, to think critically and creatively and synthesize knowledge across disciplines;
- ability to identify, evaluate and transfer significant information developed to solve problems;
- promotion of cooperative learning, perception of their ability to learn and the importance of their role within the community;
- strongest motivation.
Thanks to the support of important and inspirational figures such as Sir Ken Robinson, Heidi Hayes Jacobs and James Beane, the American system seems to be metabolized this essential requirement of integration. Well the video shows the " Common Sense: An Overview of Integrated Studies ", in which are some enlightening experiences that confirm the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary approach that makes the school gym where you can experience real life unforgettable work helping with different talents, reworking original designs in the latest information, for review and finally to judgments of experts.
What is the daily reality of the experiential knowledge of post-industrial society a lesson for discipline rigidly stuck in a school day?
The denominator common to all projects of the video programming created by professors and experts in an area of \u200b\u200bconvergence of disparate disciplines: for example the Landy Middle School students quttordicenni have designed, built and tested cars powered air balloon, created commercials and calculated financing for the purchase prototypes.
The King Middle School has even drawn the entire curriculum of the students on a plot interdisciplinary, reaching extraordinary goals: the school, previously included among those with lower-level results, today belongs to the group better.
Perhaps a new approach to interdisciplinarity, riconiugare from beyond the surreal and rigid joints per hour, would also help the Italian school-up to the reality, in order to obtain more satisfactory results, which are essential to strengthen self-esteem of pupils, the headmaster of King Middle School refers to a comment from one student who epitomizza greatest success of the school institution "Nobody here is feel more stupid. "
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