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Standard 4: Interdisciplinary Connections Makes interdisciplinary connections to purposefully engage learners to integrate content knowledge

Lines of Evidence The teacher provides evidence of interdisciplinary connections (shared content, learning objectives/intentions, skills, and/or vocabulary) that purposefully engages learners in applying cross-content knowledge within the teacher’s content .

Learning and Teaching Evidence •

PLC Notes/Products, Colleague Collaboration Notes/Products • Schoolwide or Team Interdisciplinary Initiative implemented in the classroom (e.g., starters, thematic units) • Culminating Student Project (products that document or demonstrate purposeful efforts in making interdisciplinary connections) • Lesson Planning Evidence

Benchmark Criteria

Highly Effective: • Interdisciplinary connections (shared content, learning objectives/intentions, skills, and/or vocabulary) that purposefully engage learners in applying cross-content knowledge as reflected by three or more of the following: • Two PLC Notes/Products and/or Colleague Collaboration Notes/Products that reflect interdisciplinary connections for learners • Evidence of implementing schoolwide or team interdisciplinary initiative (e.g. starters, themes, objective trackers, school improvement goals) • Culminating Student Project — Reflects learning that results in a student-developed product (e.g. research paper, experiment, simulation, performance, capstone) and shows interdisciplinary connections • Two pieces of Lesson Planning Evidence that document or demonstrate interdisciplinary connections Effective: • Interdisciplinary connections (shared content, learning objectives/intentions, skills, and/or vocabulary) that purposefully engage learners in applying cross-content knowledge as reflected by the following: • One PLC Note/Product or Colleague Collaboration Note/Product that reflects interdisciplinary connections for learners AND One of the Following: • Evidence of implementing schoolwide or team interdisciplinary initiative (e.g. starters, themes, objective trackers, school improvement goals) • Culminating Student Project - reflects learning that results in a student-developed product (e.g. research paper, experiment, simulation, performance, capstone) and shows interdisciplinary connections • One piece of Lesson Planning Evidence that documents or demonstrates interdisciplinary connections

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