HOW CROSS-CURRICULAR LEARNING DELIVERS REAL-WORLD VALUE TO YOUR CHILD
Mother, Baby & Child|June - July 2020
For some schools, the recent mode of e-Learning has been a very siloed environment for learning, with kids sitting at home in front of their computers, connecting to their courses and learning one subject at a time. However, the cross-curricular aspect of the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme has students at IB schools connecting their eLearning across disciplines, making learning at home more engaging, exciting and tangible. We reached out to Fairgreen International School to find out more about the benefits of this learning system for children.
HOW CROSS-CURRICULAR LEARNING DELIVERS REAL-WORLD VALUE TO YOUR CHILD

At Fairgreen International School, which offers the IB programme, learning across disciplines is an integral aspect of the curriculum among all grade levels. Teachers coordinate themes and units so that students can learn topics from different angles and in more authentic contexts. This cross-curricular learning experience helps students take what they are learning and apply it in various aspects of their lives, helping them gain a broader understanding of a given topic and to find more unique solutions to challenges they are looking to solve. Explaining more about cross-curricular learning (also known as ‘transdisciplinary learning’) and why it’s vital to education, Fairgreen’s Curriculum Director David Gerber says:

“Cross-curricular learning is the way we learn in the real world. Oftentimes, we are presented with challenges requiring knowledge of multiple subject areas. Transdisciplinary learning teaches students to evaluate the skills they have, pull from this tool box of knowledge and then synthesise those skills with knowledge from other disciplines.”

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