Dec 15, 2015
“Teachers are in the best position to support writing in their classrooms as opposed to policy makers far away,”said Chris Gallagher during a recent Education Talk Radio interview he and Eric Tu
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“Teachers are in the best position to support writing in their classrooms as opposed to policy makers far away,”said Chris Gallagher during a recent Education Talk Radio interview he and Eric Tu
* "Helping the last become the first"
“Helping the last become the first” is a nugget of wisdom from Dr. Don Leu, Professor of Education at UConn. I recently watched his podcast in my online class on disciplinary literacy. I love his suggestion that when new technology is added to the classroom, teachers train the “weakest” or most…
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Disciplinary Literacy requires a knowledgeable disciplinarian who 'develops techniques for grasping fundamental principles and organizing concepts that students can use to begin building their own understanding and abilities. They know how to simplify and clarify complex subjects, to cut to the heart of the matter with provocative insights, and they can think about their own thinking in the discipline, analyzing its nature and evaluating its quality. That capacity to think metacognitively drives much of what' is observed in the best teaching.
What the Best College Teachers Do. Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. ISBN: 0-674-01325-5.
Known as "reading in the content areas, " adolescent literacy strategies were based on a narrow concept of literacy for 40 years.
Piercy, T. and Piercy, W. (2011). Disciplinary Literacy: Redefining Deep Understanding and Leadership for 21st-Century Demands. Lead and Learn Press: Englewood, CO.
The limited success of the "reading in the content areas" approach is due in part to not recognizing the different comprehension demands of each discipline. For example, reading history as a historian requires deeper analysis and personal investment in understanding the text than applying "reading in the content areas" strategies affords.
Piercy, T. and Piercy, W. (2011). Disciplinary Literacy: Redefining Deep Understanding and Leadership for 21st-Century Demands. Lead and Learn Press: Englewood, CO.
Disciplinary literacy integrates deep processes and constructed understandings that do not generalize or minimize concepts to serve the pretense of connections, but honor the differences of each discipline.
Piercy, T. and Piercy, W. (2011). Disciplinary Literacy: Redefining Deep Understanding and Leadership for 21st-Century Demands. Lead and Learn Press: Englewood, CO.
Given the importance of argument[tative] comprehension, it is essential that all students become proficient text-based reasoners and an important step toward this goal is to assess college students’ ability to read and comprehend complex argumentative text.
MEREDITH LARSON, M. ANNE BRITT, and AARON A. LARSON, 2004