Focal Discipline: Social Studies Types of Questions: Anna and Emma In order to generate thought and critical thinking, social studies classes have to ask two types of questions, according to the National Council for the Social Studies, “compelling and supporting questions” (National Council, pg. 23). What exactly these types of questions generate in a student’s …
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Week Eight Blog Post
How will I as a teacher… Evaluate their claims and ways with words? Engage newcomers in my discipline in cycles of inquiry? In order for me to evaluate my students claims in a social studies class room, I would have to examine their sources’ credibility. I would have to look at their sources’ author in …
Week Seven Blog Post
How might this examination of literacy inform your own observations in your field experiences? After reading “Religious Literacies in a Secular Literacy Classroom” by Allison Skerrett, I saw certain aspects from the study that are crucial to apply to my own observations in my field experience. I believe this article would greatly influence my time …
Week Six Blog Post
What claims do they make? How do they support those claims? — aka what kind of evidence? What do you notice about the way the evidence is worded? The reading that I chose for this week is titled ““They Thought the World Was Flat?” Applying the Principles of How People Learn in Teaching High School History” written by …
Week Five Blog Post
What do you notice about either video? How do they each relate to the concepts of disciplinary literacy and/or content area reading? What are the affordances and limitations of each approach? I noticed that in each of the videos the teachers were showing their students basic skills for their disciplines, but were taking it further …
Week Four Blog Post
What are the strongest arguments for and against taking a disciplinary approach to teaching reading at the elementary levels? I believe that the arguments for and against disciplinary literacy being taught in elementary schools are both reasonable in their way. The for-side of the argument states that younger students can differentiate between two different perspectives …
Week Three Blog Post
What did Disciplinary Literacy teaching look like in a history and physics class? What might it look like in other school subjects? Certain subjects in school require different disciplinary literacies in the classroom. This is due to the fact that each subject was developed through different practices. An example of this is how mathematic theories …
Week Two Blog Post
What is the difference between Content, Content area and Disciplinary Literacy? 1.) According to Wolsey and Lapp, it seems the concepts of content, content-area, and disciplinary literacy all relate to one another but are different when it comes to teaching a student. The article states that disciplinary literacy focuses on what should be taught to …
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