A.TEACHING ACCORDING TO SUBJECT AREAS

(DISCIPLINARY APPROACH)

Discipline-based teaching is a resource for the development of abilities and skills, and serves as a basis for designing multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary subject areas.

B.ORGANIZING FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE IN CLUSTERS

The clusters are aimed at highlighting shared operational characteristics in related fields of knowledge- such as the Jewish studies cluster, the cluster of Arab culture and heritage, the arts cluster, the science and technology cluster- and focus teaching on these. Furthermore, organization in clusters enables educators to make teaching and learning more efficient- by reducing the number of fields the pupil has to cope with in a particular unit of time.

C.FOCUS LEARNING

The concept of “study focal points” emerged in the Israeli education system as a reaction to the proliferation of subjects, disciplines, fields and sub-fields in the school schedule, which resulted in the pupil’s study week being overly fragmented.

Focus learning enables educators and pupils to group, to unite, and to concentrate different subjects around key, integrating focal points. The intention of focus learning is not to abandon the disciplinary approach in teaching, but rather to balance it by combining and integrating subjects.

The key message of focus learning relates not only to the organization of educational contents, but also to an integrative learning process.