Buehl Chap. 5

 Buehl's chapter about fostering interest and inquiry around disciplinary texts was a nice read for me, and I found it very engaging. I appreciated the opening, comparing insider knowledge of baseball with insider knowledge of music theory. I really liked the way Buehl used this example about disciplinary insight and how we can learn from each other.

 This post made me think about ways my previous educators helped me develop an ability to read disciplinary texts and understand them. Truthfully, I did not have many teachers who helped me do this, and I felt like most of them in hindsight were gatekeeping to some extent. I had a difficult time feeling like these texts were accesible and as someone with an interest in History, I really struggled being able to read disciplinary based texts and finding them. Thankfully, I grew up in the digital age, and was able to find different means of accessing these texts. I had to learn a lot on my own, in terms of being able to understand what I was reading and make meaning from it. Notably, this took a lot of trial and error, in other words, I would think I knew or understood something, but I actually didn't. 

My hope as an educator is to be able to help students understand what they are reading and why they are reading it. Fostering an environment where students can tap into and understand essential questions while being able ti utilize the tools I can hopefully give them is ultimatley my goal. 

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