Cross-curricular learning
Cross-curricular learning offers an innovative learning mode to help students develop knowledge and generic skills and their capabilities to integrate all of them. Through interesting cross-curricular topics, learning activities stimulate students’ thinking and promote flexible application of knowledge in different domains in the problem solving process. In lesson planning, teachers encourage students to inquire, analyze data and learn to present their learning outcomes in groups.
Everyday life situations: where learning begins and knowledge is applied
The world is facing many complicated and challenging problems. Our students must be able to combine knowledge of various fields of specialty and deal with the challenges by thinking out of the box. Thus, our cross-curriculum design includes real-word problems and requires our students to make use of knowledge in different domains to come up with and actualize their solutions.
Flexible application of cross-discipline knowledge
The traditional curriculum emphasizes domain framework, while the cross-curricular learning emphasizes on the combination of various subject knowledge, guiding students to have flexible application of knowledge in different domains in the problem solving process. The Learning and Teaching Committee centralizes the coordination of curriculum design and the subjects collaborate according to themes.
Multifarious learning to unearth students’ potentials
In each cross curricular learning project / module, students can experience different learning modes, e.g. inquiry based learning, experiential learning, product based learning, etc., where their potentials in multiple intelligences can be fully stretched. It helps them construct knowledge through a variety of learning activities.
Incorporation of value education to nurture well-rounded students
Teachers make use of everyday life events and integrate various domains in value education, including civic education, life education, education for sustainable development, etc. in our school-based cross-curricular curriculum, so as to provide students with all-round learning experience conducive to their whole-person development. The curriculum design also combines the elements of values and attitudes. Some curriculum examples are tabulated as follows: