The question I am going to ask is whether male or female students are engaged more in math class. Throughout years of education, there has been speculation that males perform better in math than females, even when science has proved this notion to be false. Engagement can be defined as student participation in math activities, …
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Week 9 Blog Post
There are a lot of great things one can do to scaffold learning in terms of creating a classroom of disciplinary learners. Helping them engage with the necessary skills would be extremely helpful in developing their skills. For example, we have discussed the various skills in the different content areas that are used for disciplinary …
We Real Cool
After reading the article, “We Real Cool” by David Kirkland and Austin Jackson, I developed my own observations about ways to incorporate such a specific dialogue into the world of education and using it to teach disciplinary literacies. Understanding and respecting all cultures is vital, not because it is politically correct, but because it is …
Week 6
Article: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1254&context=colleagues This article highlights why disciplinary literacy is vital to education. Obviously, we have discussed this over the past six weeks, so there needs to be an emphasis on it in the classroom. The skills taught in content areas is vital for the dissection of the content they are being taught. In my own …
Week 5
I think both videos are great, but the first video seemed to be more hands on than the second video. The teacher in the second video did a lot more teacher led instruction than the teacher in the second video. There is nothing wrong with her approach, but it is not as inquiry based as …
Week 4: Examining the Disciplines
What are the strongest arguments for and against taking a disciplinary approach to teaching reading at the elementary levels? The strongest argument for taking a disciplinary approach to teaching reading at the elementary levels is that it will set up the student for success in the later grades. By teaching disciplinary skills in the subjects …
Week 2: Rainey & Houseal
What did Disciplinary Literacy teaching look like in a history and physics class? What might it look like in other school subjects? • In history, disciplinary literacy was giving the students a historical dilemma, and using primary sources with different perspectives help them develop their own opinion on what they believe was correct. The teacher …
Week 1- Gee, Moje, Lapp, and Wolsey
What is the difference between Content, Content area and Disciplinary Literacy? Content is the relationship between the author and reader where the author is trying to convey a certain message to the reader through images and sounds, and the reader connects their own experiences to the content to make the relationship a full circle. Content …
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