Blog Post 2

• What did Disciplinary Literacy teaching look like in a history and physics class? What might it look like in other school subjects? 
• Disciplinary Literacy teaching in a history class looks like being able to identify patterns and themes throughout the historical timeline. While in a physics class, Disciplinary Literacy looks like students having to know the formulas, but must also be able to apply the formulas. To do this, one must know the learn the content, know the big ideas and apply it to scientific processes. In other school subjects, such as math, Disciplinary Literacy can be very similar to in physics because, as Houseal says, “in mathematics students are encouraged to solve problems that involve mathematical ideas but are not necessarily grounded only in mathematics. The goal is to provide students with skills and critical thinking to analyze the givens and solve problems. Computational and mathematical literacies require students to understand whether the answer works within the context and to generalize to other contexts” (Houseal 3). This can be compared to physics because in physics, students have to solve problems on paper, but must also understand what their answer means.

• Apply the concept of content, content area, and disciplinary literacy to your own learning/teaching experiences. How do each of these concepts lead you to different interpretations of your observations?
• Content, Content Area and Disciplinary Literacy can be applied to my own learning experiences such as physics. Each of these concepts leads me to be able to interpret my observations because, to begin I am not good at physics. I can see that I know the content and content area of physics because I know what the subject is, what is generally being taught in it and I am even able to learn the formulas and be able to work out some problems on paper. The part where literacy discipline comes in is that I do not actually know physics because I cannot actually think of ways to apply the formulas to real life situations or be able to interpret the data.  

• How does disciplinary teaching look across the different school subjects? 
• Disciplinary teaching can be seen across the different school subjects in various ways. For example, science and math is based on being able to interpret and analyze data. English focuses more on finding themes in plots and history is finding general themes across the historical timeline.

Rainey, E. C., Maher, B. L., Coupland, D., Franchi, R., & Moje, E. B. (2018).  But what does it look like?  Illustrations of disciplinary literacy teaching in two content areas.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 61(4), 371-379.

Houseal, A., Gillis, V., Helmsing, M., & Hutchison, L. (2016). Disciplinary literacy through the lens of the Next Generation Science Standards.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 59(4), 377-384.