Using Recent Research and Cross-Cutting Skills for Your Instructional Practice
Learning does not need to be confined to boundaries and barriers.
Sometimes graduate students indicate that featured research in courses is not specifically applicable to their specific instructional practice, subject area, and/or grade level. This view seems to encourage a templated, one-size-fits-all-Lesson-Plans approach.
Learning is not confined to boundaries and barriers.
A review of Piaget’s adaptation, assimilation, and accommodation process (1954, 1956, 1965), is an important reminder that learning does not need to be confined to boundaries and barriers.
Another important concept is the application of research to STEAM / STEM instructional practices using Crosscutting and Transferable skills, which are a key objective of the NGSS Crosscutting concepts.
This video expands the definition of Crosscutting concept to unifying ideas that apply across different STEAM/STEM subjects and general content disciplines. Crosscutting concepts and application skills help students make connections among subject-matter silos. They provide connections between research and instructional practice. Crosscutting concepts and Transferable skills fuse knowledge, develop deeper understanding, and personalize ideas to prior knowledge.
This video will show how to make connections between research and practice in three easy steps. (There are more steps, just three are included in this video.)
1 Video Transcript_Application of Current Research
References
Lindayao, N. G., Salic-Hairulla, M. A., Dinoro, A. P., Ellare, A. O., & Madale, V. A. (2025). Enhancing Grade 5 Science Process Skills in Earth Science: A Foundation for Designing an Inquiry-Based STEAM Learning Packet. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 9(4), 6277-6287.
Piaget, J. (1954). The Construction of Reality in the Child. New York: Basic Books.
Teague, H. (2025). Application of Current Research & Cross-Cutting Skills to Your Instructional Practice. [Video.]. Loom. https://www.loom.com/share/f4d678c4ee0a42869218a98c98aaa199?sid=42540bc4-7145-4129-9efd-3d4861454896
