IDA MICAH MIKE

TRESCA JENNY

Interdisciplinary Learning Cooperative

WI Teacher Standards

WI Standard 3: Teachers understand that children learn differently: The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instruction to meet the diverse needs of pupil, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.

WI Standard 7: Teachers are able to plan different kinds of lessons: The teacher organizes and plans systematic instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, pupils, the community, and curriculum goals

Essential Questions

What are the core elements of an Interdisciplinary Learning Collaborative?

What is the origin of ILC?What schools currently implement the ILC

design?How is the ILC pedagogy similar and

different to Project Based Learning?

Learning Objectives

Teachers will know...Key terms---core elements, interdisciplinary learning

collaborative (ILC), project-based learning (PBL), pedagogy

Seven core elements of ILCscore elements of PBL

Teachers will be able to...define an interdisciplinary learning collaborative (ILC)locate schools in Wisconsin that use this pedagogy and

know its origincompare and contrast an ILC with a similar pedagogy (i.e.

project-based learning)

Interdisciplinary Learning Collaboratives

One of the pedagogical networks recognized by the Wisconsin Innovative School Network

Pedagogy was created by James Lewicki, an educational consultant , with the collaboration of the staff from the Appleton Career Academy

7 core elements- Can you identify some?

A day in the life of an ILC teacher…

I am a high school science teacher who coteaches a 4 week Design Elements course with a math teacher. After teaching 2 morning seminars, I coplan with staff to ensure that our integrated curriculum is responsive to the real-world needs of my students, some of whom I have will work with throughout their entire high school career. My students spend some of their school day learning from professional partners in the community. Our school community designs the school day and yearly course content to ensure that all students get the foundational courses that they need, plus have the flexible schedule to complete community internships.

7 Core Elements of an Interdisciplinary Learning Cooperative

highly integrated curriculumcommitment to team teaching/collaborative planninginterdisciplinary learning designs: seminars,

workshops, modules, symposiums, internships, and foundation courses

flexible schedulingstaff stay with a student for 4 yearscollaborative community partnershipscollaborative small school culture — respectful and

responsive to the voices of the learning community

ILC schools

Appleton Career Academyhttp://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/career_academy/index.html

Wausau Engineering and Global Leadership Academy http://www.wausauegl.org/

KM Perform http://www.kmperform.com/KMPerform.cfm

Performance task: Research schools in small groups (5-7 min) and share

out one thing you were able to find to exemplify the core elements.

Application Activity

How is the ILC pedagogy similar and different to PBL?

Self-Assessment of Learning

1. What are the core elements of an ILC?2. What is the origin of ILC?3. What schools currently implement the ILC

design?4. How is the ILC pedagogy similar and

different to PBL?