Towards Interdisciplinary Education
A Comprehensive Educational Programme to Promote Interdisciplinary Learning at Innovative Schools
TIE
Towards Interdisciplinary Education
A comprehensive programme enables K-12 teachers, instructional designers and schools to create relevant, authentic and engaging learning experiences by effectively applying interdisciplinary approach in teaching and learning.
Why Interdisciplinary Education?
When students can understand and make connections across a diverse array of knowledge and skills, they embark on a path to more rewarding lives and employment opportunities.
Bear & Skorton (2019)
TIE is specifically designed for in-service and pre-service teachers (K-12), educators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, and other interested in implementing an interdisicplinary approach to create meaningful learning experiences.
The programme offers:
Certification teacher training courses
Qualified TIE teachers will be able to understand and apply the basics of interdisciplinary education, how to design, implement, and assess interdisciplinary learning projects for both face-to-face and online teaching.
Interdisciplinary learning projects
An annual toolbox for teachers with engaging K-12 interdisciplinary learning projects: ready-made learning materials and easy-to-follow lesson plans designed by Finnish experts.
Unique study tours
Welcome to Finland!
The educational tours are exclusively designed to learn the praticality of arranging Interdisciplinary Education in truly Finnish schools through observations and conversations with Finnish teachers, students and other stakeholders.
Designed by leading experts!
Loved by teachers and students worldwide!
Pedagogical quality certified!
Creating meaningful learning experiences
real-world phenomena or topics relevant to students; UN's 17 sustainable goals as main themes
& different subjects involved
Developing student's higher-order thinking & learning skills
diverse group work opportunities, exploratory work; aiming at the development of transversal competencies, subject competencies; emphasizing student participation, autonomy, activeness, and self-/peer-evaluation in learning
Applying versatile pedagogies that make teacher work easy
action-based & exploratory learning as main approaches plus authentic learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, phenomenon-based learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning or communal knowledge construction