In review of Dr. Moye's Article and podcast, Foregrounding the Disciplines in Secondary Literacy Teaching and Learning: A Call for Change I am intrigued by new concepts for student education. I believe in academia we have more theory then we have time to for implementation. I believe the concept that Dr. Moye has introduced is just a shift of how to introduce content literacy. I believe her ideals may be the most accurate way of accomplishing Content Literacy through Disciplinary Literacy. I believe she may have created the foundation to accomplish literacy practices multiple genre.
As I traversed the courses in this M.A.T program, the knowledge I have been exposed to and synthesis has been amazing. This article and podcast have gone further to helping me understand how concepts are re-conceptualized and how research becomes a living breathing organism. I am excited to see what types of concepts my own research will lead me to redevelop or conceptualize. The fact that "Content Literacy" can possible evolve into "Disciplinary Literacy" before it has essentially taken root is exciting, encouraging, and daunting at the same time. What this article has helped me gain is the understanding that research and learning can be categorized as the same, "A Life Long Pursuit of Understanding."
Your position of literacy in the classroom for all subject area teachers is remarkable and I like the idea that content literacy can becomes "Displinary Literacy" is new and a very good catch phrase for literacy in the classrooms. The process should start in college where teaching pedagogy includes Reading courses, schools hire reading coachs to assist subject area teachers once they are employed, and research to further improve literacy for education.
ReplyDeleteI agree that literacy in the classroom for all subject areas in important. My question to you would be what about the subjects that are more performance based such as the arts? I realize as a music teacher that my student decode, analyze, and translate foreign languages every time they come in my classroom. Since music is a language that not all people understand, how would one go about increasing content literacy in music when you know as well as I do that they are not going to be putting reading coaches in my classroom anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the amount of theory in a graduate program can be daunting! However, the decisions that we make in the classroom through the lens of that theory informs our teaching.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your way of thinking in terms of using more research in content literacy in order to incorporate "Disciplinary Literacy". Which will allow educators to help students enhance their skills in literacy in each and every subject matter and make proficient readers throughout adulthood.
ReplyDeleteYour views on secondary literacy education is similar to mine. We both agree with Dr. Moje's views, and you're right, their is some connection between research and learning; now can we transfer this information in literacy knowledge to the student?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that far too often we do a lot of talking yet; our classroom and school situations appear to remain the same. There appears to be this great disconnection between the student and the teacher in today’s classroom. Both entities say that want change but neither party has any valid solutions to improving the school’s climate.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your views wholeheartedly. More efforts need to be made between school executives, curriculum writers, educators, and all other stakeholders to be on the same accord, as well as take more considerations as they relate to the children we service.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the topics of Content Literacy and Critical Thinking, there are two web sites that may provide some amount of help for teachers who are interested in exploring the “whats” and the “hows” of its implementation. Besides these two addresses, many of Dr. Moje's works can be found on the Internet, of course.
ReplyDelete1. Content Literacy as is being practiced by the Strategic Learning Center:
https://smarttogether.org/clc
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2. Regarding the topics of Critical Thinking, this address focuses upon Bloom's Taxonomy which may help teachers’ implementation:
https://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm interpretation
This is the time for Moje ideals! I think for sometime now educators have drifted away from teaching the fundamentals and supporting each subject with understanding our students’ current abilities and building the instructional piece around student prior knowledge. I can appreciate your response because I think it’s precisely what Moje meant in both the article and podcst. I think that “old” educators are afraid of this “radical” way of thinking to get away from tests and spending more time applying content literacy in content areas.
ReplyDeleteI agree that too much talk tends to take place. My biggest complaint about professional developments is that we are talked at, yet are not shown how to implement the items that are discussed. Teachers, young and old, have to be flexible enough to work together to educate students.
ReplyDeleteWhen you said that we have more theory than we have time for implemetation, you hit the nail on the head. Most educators arent ready for the classroom because they get to caught up in the theories and texts from their education background. Try using what works and forget about the theories.
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