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Disciplinary Literacy: Literacy In The Social Studies Classroom

Disciplinary Literacy: Literacy In The Social Studies Classroom. Engaging Students In Authentic Opportunities To Practice Literacy! Because You Won’t Know If They Are Literate Until You Give Them Opportunities To Apply The Skills You Want Them To Acquire . Session Purpose & Desired Outcomes.

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Disciplinary Literacy: Literacy In The Social Studies Classroom

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  1. Disciplinary Literacy: Literacy In The Social Studies Classroom Engaging Students In Authentic Opportunities To Practice Literacy! Because You Won’t Know If They Are Literate Until You Give Them Opportunities To Apply The Skills You Want Them To Acquire .

  2. Session Purpose & Desired Outcomes • The Purpose Of This Session Is To… • Share the intent of the History/Social Studies Common Core Literacy Standards • Share the meaning and intent of disciplinary literacy • Demonstrate strategies and ideas for engaging students in the application of the History/Social Studies Common Core Literacy Standards & disciplinary literacy while invoking inquiry • So That Participants… • Gain an understanding of what it means to be literate in Social Studies • Acquire ideas of authentic ways to encourage disciplinary literacy and inquiry through the use of the History/Social Studies Common Core Literacy Standards in the social studies classroom

  3. Literacy & Disciplinary Literacy Each content or subject discipline has: • its own unique knowledge core and … • its own ways of inquiring, investigating, reasoning, representing, and questioning. Literacyis the ability to read and write. Disciplinary literacy refers to the specialized skills that someone must master to be able to read and write in the various disciplines (science, math, literature, history, geography, economics, politics, government, law, sociology, psychology, etc. ) and technical fields.

  4. The historian examines past modifications. The geographer maps out changes in the environment. The economist considers the financial impact of government efforts. The political scientist considers the legislation and public policy implications. The cultural researcher considers social changes resulting from modifications. Discipline Experts in the Social Studies • 3.G.1.4 Explain how the movement of goods, people and ideas impact the community. • 7.G.1.3 Explain how natural disasters, preservation efforts and human modification of the environment affect modern societies and regions. • AH1.H.3.2 Explain how environmental, cultural and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the U.S. before the Civil War. • CE.C&G.1.2 Explain how the Enlightenment and other contributing theories impacted the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights to help promote liberty, justice and equality.

  5. Distinguishing Content Literacy From Disciplinary Literacy

  6. Let’s Perform A Quick Exercise!

  7. Looking At Questions From A Disciplinary View Point • What economic elements or references do you read in the narrative and/or primary source that can help you understand society during the time span the source was written? Economic Lens • What is suggested about civic life, government activity, or politics? What is your evidence? Political/Government Lens • Based on your reading of the narrative and primary sources, how has government activity influenced the central figures that you read about? What examples are provided by the narrative and primary sources? Political/Government Lens • How does the narrative help develop your understanding of the culture of the author of the primary source? Culture Lens • What can you tell about the social class (are they rich? Poor? In the middle?) What is your evidence? Culture Lens What prediction can you make about the time and place? What evidence do you have for your prediction? History Lens What factors do you think might have led to the event(s) and situation(s) being described? What evidence can you offer to support your thinking? History Lens What are some ways you can use the primary source in understanding the past and present and predicting the future? History Lens What economic/financial factor might explain the action(s) described? What is your evidence? Economic Lens What inferences can you as an economist about the life of the individuals mentioned in the primary source? Economic Lens In examining the primary source what assumptions can you make about the relationship between human beings and the environment? How have they impacted or influenced each other? Geography Lens

  8. Disciplinary Literacy In Social Studies? Which of these do you believe are essential in Social Studies? • Students should be able to engage in learning experiences that allow them to become “practitioners” in each sub discipline in order to apply the unique processes, approaches, tools, and knowledge base to solve authentic, complex problems and issues. • Students should be able to have a knowledge of the words and phrases of a discipline in order to understand the issues, events, and phenomena of a discipline. • Students should be able to read and understand various kinds of texts depending on the discipline in which it occurs. • Students should be able to combine knowledge and skills with the ability to read, write, listen, speak, think critically and demonstrate tasks in a way that is meaningful within the context of a particular discipline of social studies. • Students should be able to engage in authentic opportunities to learn and practice literacy by applying skills that require them to think deeply and critically about specific disciplines of social studies.

  9. “We don’t need to eschew the traditional subjects—but we do need to move beyond memorizing and regurgitating what experts in the field have already discovered. We need students to think like an expert in the field. That means classrooms should look more like investigative laboratories than rows of desks ready to receive information.” Source: Thomas Friedman in November 7, 2003http://edtosavetheworld.com/2013/11/07/think-about-jobs-of-the-future/ blog post Critical Reflection…Think About It! The traditional debate in education has been around this question: “How much content do students need to know in order to be skilled in critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving?” Research has taught us that a better question might be: “What disciplinary thinking practicesdo students need to master in order to be skilled in critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving?”

  10. Why Disciplinary Literacy? Disciplinary literacy encourages critical attributes of quality instruction In Social Studies. • Learning that is Meaningful & Authentic • Key concepts and themes are developed in depth • Skills necessary to help students thrive in the world beyond school • Learning that is Integrative • Combining knowledge and skills encourages greater understanding when actually applying skills • Multiple disciplines are often a part of the content used to apply skills • Active Engagement • Actively being involved in applying skills to the content requires students to process and think about what they are learning • Social studies involves questioning which directs inquiry that involve analysis and inferring

  11. What Is Inquiry? & How Does Inquiry Connect With Disciplinary Literacy? Inquiryis a process of learning that is driven by questioning, thoughtful investigating, making sense of information, and developing new understandings. • “Inquiry… • Incorporates interdisciplinary study • Emphasizes skills and practices • Applies Disciplinary Concepts and Tools

  12. Connecting Inquiry To Social Studies Literacy • Disciplinary literacy and inquiry-based learning goes beyond gathering facts. • Disciplinary literacy and inquiry-based learning engages students in deeper learning, so the shift from gathering concrete facts to investigating complex and abstract ideas and relationships promotes inquiry.

  13. Historical Literacy Meter Are you a historically literate viewer? A historically literate viewer understands that a movie can look historically convincing without presenting the past accurately.

  14. Let’s Engage & Demonstrate How Disciplinary Literacy Works? How can teachers apply disciplinary literacy and inquiry learning in the classroom?

  15. What If Your Students Were Given This As An Artifact To Study In A Lesson? • What do you think this might be? • What would it be used to do? • Who would use this? • What type of person would have one of these? • Which lens would you use to analyze this artifact?

  16. What Do You Hear?Think about and write down impressions while you listen.

  17. Let’s Engage With Some Tactile Artifacts

  18. Presentation of Infomercials & Wrap-Up Discussion • How doesincorporatingdisciplinaryliteracy engage and motivatestudentlearning? • How might you use the ideas and activitiesfromthis session in yourclassroom? Or How mightyou support social studiesteachers to use the ideas and activities in the classroom?

  19. Good-Bye & Thank You For Attending! • Presenters: • Michelle McLaughlin • Michelle.mclaughlin@dpi.nc.gov • Ann Carlock • Ann.carlock@dpi.nc.gov • Presentation can be found on the K-12 Social Studies Wiki at http://ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Conference+Presentations • It will also be posted to the CCSA conference presentation site. Let Us Leave You With This…. The Official Coca-Cola "Big Game" Commercial 2014 - America Is Beautiful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs

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