| Body | This activity was created to guide interdisciplinary planning meetings. It was designed to provide additional support for world language teachers lacking robust professional networks (e.g., a local world language department), but is appropriate for all world language teachers.
Learning Outcomes:
Teachers will be able to:
- Set a goal for an interdisciplinary team meeting
- Create a plan for instruction involving educators from other disciplines
Materials: Tips for Interdisciplinary Collaboration video
- Watch the Tips for Interdisciplinary Collaboration video. Identify three colleagues from other disciplines with whom you would like to collaborate towards augmenting the real-worldeness and applicability of your instruction.
- Invite your colleagues to meet for 30 minutes. Identify a goal for the meeting (e.g., writing unit questions together, crafting interdisciplinary projects, or improving the real-world relevance of assessments) and share the Tips for Interdisciplinary Collaboration video so that everyone has some awareness of the protocol you will be using.
- Begin the meeting by sharing your content with one another. Be sure to explain the overarching relevance of the content in terms of the ultimate success of your curriculum. Here, consider the relevance of the language content in terms of function, overall communicative competence, and/or central concepts related to communication. For example, if you are teaching a unit with adjectives, consider how the use of adjectives are used functionally (e.g., the creation of compelling descriptions in advertisements).
- After everyone has shared, make sure to summarize the importance and relevance of the content they shared in your own words to verify understanding. Provide clarification as needed.
- Finally, begin work related to the goal selected in Step 2. Work together to discuss how your descriptions in Step 3 relate to one another as you refine and repurpose the project, unit questions, or assessments you are considering.
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