Another subject I’m starting to think about as I think about interdisciplinary teaching as well as other kinds of (I think) desirable approaches to teaching is how one institutionalizes individual strengths. It strikes me that ultimately that will be the mark of success (or not) of certain kinds of programs.
One of the upsides of lots of teacher autonomy in the classroom is that it can promote the growth of very effective courses/classes as teachers are given freedom to innovate or refine in their own classrooms. One of the downsides is that in the structure of most schools, there’s no incentive from the standpoint of colleagues to institutionalize those strengths except insofar as they are motivated individually to do so by their own personal desire to improve their teaching.