TY - JOUR
T1 - Transdisciplinary approach in middle school
T2 - A case study of co-teaching practices in STEAM teams
AU - Wu, Yufei
AU - Cheng, Jiaming
AU - Koszalka, Tiffany A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - A call for educational reform motivated this school system to devise an enhanced version of STEM in their middle school. This case provides rich descriptions of how eighth grade middle school teachers, from multiple disciplines, enacted a STEAM team model that integrated Language Arts into STEM. These STEAM team teachers were systematically studied during field observations of 100+ class sessions using what they referred to as transdisciplinary co-teaching, flexible scheduling, and multiple types of physical spaces to further engage students. Different dimensions of co-teaching were observed. The most frequently observed was reconstructed, followed by predisciplinary, correlated, and shared. Types of instruction other than reconstructed, did not fit the school's proposed definitions of transdisciplinary co-teaching. Thoughts are shared on lessons learned.
AB - A call for educational reform motivated this school system to devise an enhanced version of STEM in their middle school. This case provides rich descriptions of how eighth grade middle school teachers, from multiple disciplines, enacted a STEAM team model that integrated Language Arts into STEM. These STEAM team teachers were systematically studied during field observations of 100+ class sessions using what they referred to as transdisciplinary co-teaching, flexible scheduling, and multiple types of physical spaces to further engage students. Different dimensions of co-teaching were observed. The most frequently observed was reconstructed, followed by predisciplinary, correlated, and shared. Types of instruction other than reconstructed, did not fit the school's proposed definitions of transdisciplinary co-teaching. Thoughts are shared on lessons learned.
KW - STEAM Education
KW - STEM Education
KW - Science Education
KW - Transdisciplinary co-teaching
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U2 - 10.46328/ijemst.1017
DO - 10.46328/ijemst.1017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098155898
SN - 2147-611X
VL - 9
SP - 138
EP - 162
JO - International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology
JF - International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -