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 * WI Teacher Standards:**

WI Standard 3: Teachers understand that children learn differently: The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instructon to meet the diverse needs of pupil, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.

WI Standard 7: Teachers are able to plan different kinds of lessons: The teacher organizes and plans systematic instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, pupils, the community, and curriculum goals.


 * Essential Questions:**

What are the core elements of an ILC? What is the origin of ILC? What schools currently implement the ILC design? How is the ILC pedagogy similar and different to PBL?


 * Understandings:**

Teachers will understand that the seven elements of an ILC are:
 * 1) highly integrated curric
 * 2) commitment to team teaching, time set aside for collaborative planning
 * 3) flexible scheduling
 * 4) Interdisciplinary learning designs of seminars, workshops, modules, symposiums, internships and foundation courses that are responsive and responsible to the student as individual learner in a collaborative context with ongoing community engagement realities.
 * 5) IM team where staff stay with a student for 4 years
 * 6) Collaborative Community Business/Industry/Recreation/Non-Profit/Natural Resource Partners as places to learn and learn from.
 * 7) Development of a collaborative small school culture — respectful and responsive to the voices and choices inherent in a generative learning community — founded on the above design elements of the interdisciplinary learning collaborative.

Teachers will understand that three schools use the ILC model in their high schools. They are Appleton Career Academy, the Wausau Engineering and Global Leadership Academy and KM Perform.

Teachers will understand that a school consultant (James Lewicki) and a charter school (ACA) created this pedagogy.

Teachers will understand the similarities and differences between an ILC and PBL.


 * Learning Objectives:**

Students will know...
 * Key terms---core elements, interdisciplinary learning collaborative (ILC), project-based learning (PBL), pedagogy
 * Seven core elements of ILCs
 * core elements of PBL

Students will be able to...
 * define an interdisciplinary learning collaborative (ILC)
 * locate schools in Wisconsin that use this pedagogy and know its origin
 * compare and contrast an ILC with a similar pedagogy (i.e. project-based learning)


 * Evidence--Performance Tasks:**

1) Scenario Activity: Present scenario describe "a day in the life of a teacher at a ILC school." Teachers will identify two of the core elements of the ILC pedagogy in the scenario. Check for understanding as a whole group.

2) Website Activity: Small groups research one of the three ILC schools (5-7 min) and identify evidence of the core elements of ILC.

3) Application Activity: Teachers will create a Venn Diagram in small groups to compare and contrast ILC and project-based learning. Groups will share.


 * Self-Assessment and Reflection:**

Students will self-assess ability to answer essential questions.