Inspiring Transdisciplinary Connections in Specialist and Supporting Classrooms

​Welcome to my break out session at the IB Global Conference in Budapest.  I began this journey, because I wanted to support teachers that are usually not represented.  This was my mission and I hope it was successful. 

I took a risk and presented on the Concrete Pictorial Abstract approach to making transdisciplinary connections.  I first showed how this approach might look in a single subject and how it could go more conceptual in nature.  

In some ways, I wish I had stayed with my traditional topic of central ideas, lines of inquiry, choosing specified and additional concepts, and ATL.  This would have been more meaningful for planning.  But, I went for the more abstract thinking and I don't know if it resonated with everyone else.  I hope so. 

Here we are unpacking the ideas together.  My wish was to have created this together, but we ran out of time.  As you can tell, I felt a little bummed.  I don't think I did a good job at this global conference.  Hopefully, I helped someone make deeper connections.