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According to edglossary.org, scaffolding, in terms of education, “refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning progress.” As teachers, our goal is to have our students not only possess knowledge, but to grow to understand and eventually produce their own knowledgeContinue reading “Blog #7 Cut the Textbook”

            For this week’s reading, I chose to read Disciplinary Literacy in English Language Arts by Peter Smagorinsky. Because my passion is to teach ELA (preferably grades 7-8), I thought this article would give me insight on the importance of disciplinary literacy across grade levels, and how it affects teachers/students in ELA.              While reading this article, I couldContinue reading “Blog #5 It’s Not Just On Us”

            After fully watching the videos, I saw disciplinary teaching successfully modeled in both. With this being said, I do believe that both of these videos are somewhat out of date. I’m not saying that the teaching strategies themselves are out of date – but instead, I am suggesting that in a modern classroom when teachingContinue reading “Blog #4 Is Disciplinary Literacy Displayed?”

Disciplinary literacy in elementary school, a controversial subject, in my opinion, should be implemented, or at least introduced. As stated in Shanahan’s article, disciplinary literacy is “the specialized ways of reading, understanding, and thinking used in each academic discipline” (p. 636). In order to prepare children to produce knowledge, I believe it to be essentialContinue reading “Blog #3 Shanahan, Spires, and Gee”

Rainey stated that disciplinary literacy teaching “is necessary for advancing goals of college readiness and social justice” (p. 371). In order to prepare students for advanced learning in school/college, as well as in the real world, disciplinary literacy is a crucial teaching strategy across all subject areas that teachers should strive to implement. Disciplinary literacyContinue reading “Blog #2 Houseal and Rainey”

            Initially reading the assigned articles, content, content area, and disciplinary literacy were vague terms that seemed to run together as one in my mind. It has now come to my attention that although they are connected, they are, in fact, separate terms, but all in all, essential to learning. Content, in brief, is “what theContinue reading “Blog #1 Wolsey, Lapp, Moje, and Gee”