Top Tips

Have conversations with colleagues in other disciplines

Talk about how you teach, what you teach and how you assess …. and then start to think about the synergies.

Engage with IATL and/or Learning Circles

These may have resources to help you facilitate your interdisciplinary teaching.

Start with what you find exciting

Think about what you find exciting and what you are passionate about and then build on interdisciplinary perspectives from that.

Cultivate student understanding

Ensure students understand why they are learning in an interdisciplinary way. Do not do it ‘just for the sake of it.’

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Understand where your students are coming from

Are they from different backgrounds learning one topic, or from one background engaging in another topic? Think about where their starting point is and where you want to lead them.

You don’t need to rewrite your entire module to be interdisciplinary

You may want to start by introducing another perspective into one part of your course, not the whole thing.

Treat your students as collaborators and co-creators of knowledge

Interdisciplinary teaching and learning are explorative and benefit from an inquiry-led approach. Mutual trust and respect support students to take interdisciplinary risks in their learning.

Consider students’ overall interdisciplinary journey, not just at the module/session level

What pathways and module choices are open to your students, what options do they have to carve out an interdisciplinary journey during their whole time at Warwick, how can your teaching support that?