Describes a two-semester interdisciplinary course bringing together the history and literature of the United States to provide as complete a record of the American experience as could be found. (HOD)

Classrooms in the United Kingdom are beginning to open up, with teachers working in multidisciplinary teams composed of classroom assistants, nursery nurses, learning support auxiliaries, educational psychologists, community educators, health and social workers, and parent volunteers. This paper identifies published sources of information on…

Medical and allied health students should pursue general and specialized interdisciplinary courses in classroom and laboratory and should have ongoing exposure to the humanities, social sciences and real life situations to facilitate the change from a territorial to a team approach for the provision of health care. (SA)

School foodservice managers and their staffs in 30 Washington State high schools are working on interdisciplinary teams with English, business math, and home economics teachers and guidance counselors in a new program that introduces students to career ladders in the hospitality and foodservice industry. (Author)

Describes trend toward team hiring in academic marketplace. (IR)

Reports on a four-year-old, team-taught secondary interdisciplinary program that combined English, social studies, biology, and geometry. The course was organized into three phases: (1) the "Paper Chase," teaching learning skills; (2) "Welcome to the Monkey House," which addressed fundamental human issues; and (3) "Phase Out," or personal…

Describes a high school English teacher's first year collaborating with math, science, and history teachers in a connecting-the-curriculum program. Describes how the author's first semester of teaching English within this interdisciplinary framework lacked coherence and was not successful and how his students helped make the second semester more…

An interdisciplinary team from various college allied health departments implemented Project AGE: Alliance for Gerontology Education to develop content to infuse in courses on the themes of age and culture, assistive technology, collaboration, and consumer health education. One goal was to foster interaction among allied health students to prepare…

A reanalysis of the database from the 1993-94 AASL (American Association of School Librarians)/Highsmith Research Study indicates that library media specialists who participated in at least one multiple-content area unit reported significantly higher levels of involvement with classroom teachers in curriculum planning compared with those who…

The interdisciplinary team organization allows teachers to allocate time to accommodate the curriculum and young adolescents' instructional needs. For maximum flexibility, several scheduling options may be considered: large-group instructional time, one less period daily, heterogeneous class grouping, and "top class" team scheduling. Advantages,…

Organizing a school staff to deliver a core curriculum has historically taken three forms: the all-school theme approach, interdisciplinary teamwork, and the block time or self-contained class models. The ultimate in student-centered integrative curriculum is the unstructured core approach, which involves teacher and student cooperation in…

Discusses what team teachers--one English and the other business management--learned from planning an interdisciplinary course, from developing the curriculum, and from their classroom experiences. Offers guidance for interdisciplinary teaching, a model for bridging business and literature, and a model that can be extended to other disciplines.…

A year ago, a small Maine high school used cutting-edge instructional methodology, aggressive public-relations strategies, and community input to place its art department at the center of school improvement. Implementation of an interdisciplinary art, business-education, and computer-science course has elevated the art department's status and…

Summarizes research findings from a longitudinal study related to measuring effective classroom practices, the aspects of interdisciplinary teaming that affect practices at the classroom level, and how classroom practices relate to student achievement. (JPB)

This paper examines some intersections among school literacy events and practices, identity formation, and the institutional practice known in the US as tracking. During a year-long, critical ethnographic study to examine how a team-taught, interdisciplinary curriculum impacted the development of students' literacies, it was found that not only…