Doug Baker's presentation at EMWP's 2/9/2011 "Reading and Writing in a Decade of Standards" Professional Development Series. This was the first of three.

1. Disciplinary Literacy
W. Douglas Baker
Eastern Michigan Writing Project
Saturday, February 11, 2012

2. “Disciplinary Literacy”
Disciplines include norms and expectations in practices
of interacting; communicating, defending and archiving
ideas; exploring particular issues and topics and
conducting research

3. “Disciplinary Literacy”
Disciplines include norms and expectations in practices
of interacting; communicating, defending and archiving
ideas; exploring particular issues and topics and
conducting research
Literacy: reading and writing (and now, viewing or
engaging with multimodal texts)

4. Practices
Actions and discourse that constitute “literate”
activities, including assumptions and beliefs behind these.

5. Practices
Actions and discourse that constitute “literate”
activities, including assumptions and beliefs behind these.
Example: reciting to learn or writing to learn

6. Discourse
The language, values and assumptions that we use to
define, discuss or describe ideas or practices

7. Discourse
The language, values and assumptions that we use to
define, discuss or describe ideas and practices
Example: how we define and describe “reading” or
“writing” in our classrooms.

8. Four Considerations
Students’ perspectives of literacy in our subject area

9. Four Considerations
Students’ perspectives of literacy in subject areas
Teachers’ perspectives of literacy in their subject areas

10. Four Considerations
Students’ perspectives of literacy in subject areas
Teachers’ perspectives of literacy in their subject areas
Disciplinary perspectives of literacy

11. Four Considerations
Students’ perspectives of literacy in subject areas
Teachers’ perspectives of literacy in their subject areas
Disciplinary perspectives of literacy
Role of standards and how students and teachers are
assessed

12. One more…
Opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary
collaborations