Model Digital Professional Development Presentation for Professor Aguilera's LTED 607: Reading in the Secondary School, Spring 2014. For educational purposes only.

1. Earl Aguilera
New Jersey City University
eaguilera@njcu.edu

2. A Taste of Expertise:
Using Disciplinary Literacy for Content-Area
Engagement

3. Goals
Participants will...
• ...discuss the assumptions and implications
of disciplinary literacy
• ...reflect on the definition of “literacy” in
various disciplines
• ...brainstorm ways to bring disciplinary
practices into the classroom

4. Disciplinary Literacy in the Classroom
Introduction and Overview
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end
Unpacking “Disciplinary Literacy”
Take-Aways

5. “Disciplinary Literacy”

6. What inspired you to
pursue your discipline?

8. How do we bring our
passion to our
students?

9. Disciplinary Literacy

10. Definitions
literacy (n.) - The ability to read, write, speak,
think critically, and perform in different
ways and for different purposes.

11. Definitions
disciplinary literacy (n.) - The ability to read,
write, speak, think critically, and perform in
ways that are meaningful to a particular
subject area, discipline, or field.

12. Content Area Reading
Disciplinary Literacy
+
How we teach
What we teach

13. Unpacking “Disciplinary Literacy”

14. Unpacking “Disciplinary Literacy”
Identify the following in the article:
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1 assumption the author brings to the text
• 1 thing you agree with in the text
• 1 thing you want to argue with in the text
• 1 thing you want to aspire to in the text

15. Unpacking “Disciplinary Literacy”
1.Select a guide, a scribe, and a speaker for
your group.
2.Solicit the assumptions that each group
member has identified in the article.
3.Record the group’s thoughts on a single sheet
of paper.
4.Repeat the process for agreements,
arguments, and aspirations from the text.

16. Stretch Break
1.Please group yourselves according to subject
area/discipline.

17. Disciplinary Literacy in the Classroom
1.In your groups, assign a guide, a scribe, and
a speaker.
2.Discuss the following 2 questions, and record
your group’s conclusions on the chart paper.

18. Disciplinary Literacy in the Classroom
1.What does it mean to be “literate” in your
discipline? In other words, what are the ways
of reading, writing, thinking, and performing
that are meaningful in your discipline?
2.What are some ways that you might make
students in your classroom more “literate” in
your discipline? How might you give them a
“taste of expertise” in your particular discipline?

19. Take-Aways

20. Take-Aways
Physical Education

21. Take-Aways
Music

22. Take-Aways
Health

23. Take-Aways
Math

24. Take-Aways
Math

25. Take-Aways
Math

26. Take-Aways
threeacts.mrmeyer.com
Math

27. Take-Aways
Foreign Language

28. Take-Aways
1. A different way to access content

29. Take-Aways
2. Scalable

30. Take-Aways
3. A taste of expertise

31. Take-Aways
4. Transferring Passion

32. A Taste of Expertise:
Using Disciplinary Literacy for Content-Area
Engagement

33. Questions?

34. More Questions?
Room 213
eaguilera@njcu.edu

35. Thanks.

36. Want to Know More?
“What Is Disciplinary Literacy?” A brief overview of the concept from the
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Addresses issues of state
standards and Common Core Implementation.
http://standards.dpi.wi.gov/files/cal/pdf/section2.pdf
Disciplinary Literacy: Why It Matters and What We Should Do About It. An NPR
resource page linking viewers to a video of Liz Moje’s keynote speech on the
topic and her accompanying Powerpoint.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3121
“Disciplinary Literacy is NOT the New Name for Content Area Reading.” A
blog post by foundational DI researcher Tim Shanahan explaining the difference
between these often confused concepts.
http://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/2012/01/disciplinary-literacy-is-not-newname.html
Foregrounding the Disciplines in Secondary Teaching and Learning: A Call for
Change. A link to the article used in the face-to-face PD I used with my staff
last year.
http://www.clemson.edu/aophub/documents/call%20for%20change.pdf