{"id":8553,"date":"2022-09-23T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/?page_id=8553"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:05:17","slug":"disciplinary-excellence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/disciplinary-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciplinary Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"
Create and deliver a coherent course of study with activities and assessment strategies that are consonant with current best thinking in the discipline.<\/strong><\/p>\n Design and deliver courses that encourage students to connect to the disciplinary material with a sense of expansiveness and rigor. At the core of the teaching enterprise is a commitment to discipline: to the questions that animate scholars and connect the discipline to the world. At 麻豆传媒在线, faculty and departments retain a lifelong relationship to their disciplines, seeking ways to make relevant the disciplinary waves and shifts in emphasis and thinking to all students, from general education to graduate level. The challenge for instructors is to find the right pitch for students, advancing student thinking and knowledge as much as is possible, right to the edge of capacity. With an emphasis on curiosity, critical thinking, and capacity building, instructors seek to have students recognize courses as rigorous and impactful.<\/p>\n Courses designed with disciplinary excellence in mind allow students to make connections among themselves, their disciplines, and the systems that impact the world around them. It prepares students for rich lives, strong careers, and develops their ability to be able to think innovatively about the future. Instructors retain disciplinary excellence through engagement in their fields of study, through research and reading, and also through attending professional activities with other instructors to develop discipline-specific pedagogical strategies and course materials.<\/p>\n Visit OFE’s Digital Commons page<\/a> for examples of Disciplinary Excellence.<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Healey, M. (2000). Developing the scholarship of teaching in higher education: A discipline-based approach. <\/span>Higher Education Research & Development, 19<\/span><\/i>(2), 169-189.<\/span><\/p>\n Kreber, C. (2009). <\/span>The university and its disciplines: Teaching and learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries<\/span><\/i>. Routledge.<\/span><\/p>\n Middendorf, J., & Pace, D. (2004). Decoding the disciplines: A model for helping students learn disciplinary ways of thinking. <\/span>New Directions for Teaching and Learning<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>98<\/span><\/i>, 1\u201312. <\/span>http:\/\/ezproxy.montclair.edu:2048\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ761123&site=eds-live&scope=site<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Miller, Y. J., & Boman, J. (2017). Uncovering ways of thinking, practicing, and being through decoding across disciplines. <\/span>New Directions for Teaching & Learning<\/span><\/i>, 150, 19\u201335. <\/span>https:\/\/doi-org.ezproxy.montclair.edu\/10.1002\/tl.20235<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Neumann, R., Parry, S. and Becher, T. (2002). Teaching and learning in their disciplinary context: A conceptual analysis. <\/span>Studies in Higher Education<\/span><\/i>, 4, 405\u2013417.<\/span><\/p>\n Pace, D., & Middendorf, J. (2004). <\/span>Decoding the disciplines: Helping students learn disciplinary ways of thinking<\/span><\/i>. Jossey-Bass.<\/span><\/p>\n Parker, J. (2002). A new disciplinarity: Communities of knowledge, learning and practice.” <\/span>Teaching in Higher Education <\/span><\/i>7(4), 373-386.<\/span><\/p>\n Riordan, T., & Roth, J. L. (2005). <\/span>Disciplines as frameworks for student learning: Teaching the practice of the disciplines<\/span><\/i>. Stylus Pub.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n Last Modified: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 11:05 am<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information or help, please <\/span>email <\/span><\/a>the Office for Faculty Excellence or <\/span>make an appointment<\/span><\/a> with a consultant.<\/span><\/p>\n Teaching Resources by <\/span>麻豆传媒在线 Office for Faculty Excellence<\/span><\/a> is licensed under a <\/span>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Third-party content is not covered under the Creative Commons license and may be subject to additional intellectual property notices, information, or restrictions. You are solely responsible for obtaining permission to use third party content or determining whether your use is fair use and for responding to any claims that may arise.<\/span><\/p>\n\n