In order for students to make sense of new ideas or new content, they must receive scaffolding of previous knowledge. Although, students may have different skill levels, effective scaffolding allows the content to be accessible to all students. Similarly, When students are introduced to a certain disciplinary lenses, specifically through reading disciplinary texts, students require …
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Teaching Religious Intolerance in Public Schools
Public schools are required to have a curriculum that is enriching, engaging and examines all social and cultural perspectives; that provides an equitable learning experience for all students. However, there is a stigma about religion, teaching religious texts and examining the different religions in any context in public schools. By avoiding the examination of religious …
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Digital Literacies Across the Content Areas
Digital literacy may sound like the educational idea, disciplinary literacy, and there is a reason for that. Similar to disciplinary literacy, digital literacies can be applied across the disciplines and they give students tools meet common core standards or other benchmarks in the different content areas. When students are given the opportunity to strengthen their …
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What’s Not Working with Disciplinary Literacy
This week, given the freedom to choose what I read in class, I found an enlightening article about reading across the disciplines. In this article by Lee (2014), the author discusses factors that teachers and scholars are ignoring when considering the implementation and student progress in disciplinary learning across content areas. In the introduction of …
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Disciplinary Literacy in the Elementary Grades; What About Students with Disabilities?
After spending a couple weeks reading about disciplinary literacy, I have gained multiple viewpoints on disciplinary literacy. Although many of the past articles mentioned in my blog are praising disciplinary literacy practices, some educators argue against these practices. For example, many teachers already feel overwhelmed with integrating standards into lessons, making sure students meet national …
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Content, content area and disciplinary literacy; With a definition of certification area.
In my experiences as a pre-service teacher, I have discovered many examples of the concepts content, content area and disciplinary literacy. These experiences have been both inside the classroom and in my undergraduate courses. I am also going to discuss another term that is familiar in my academic career, certification area, providing my interpretation and …
Content – Defined and Examined
In this week’s reading, Wolsey & Lapp (2017) address the differences in the terms content, content area and disciplinary literacy (Wolsey & Lapp, 2017). This post is going to focus on the specific term content. Although these terms sound alike, they each play a diverse role in the classroom. In education, content is the “what” …
First Day of Senior Year Undergrad
Senior year is here. Finally. Although there is much learning and writing to be done this year, I am going to begin with a gif of a cat that accurately depicts me completing this assignment .
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