  {"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":"<h3>Principle 6. Disciplinary Excellence: Summary and Rationale<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 11\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>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<p>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<p>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<div class=\"prpl-drawer\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Disciplinary Excellence&colon; Strategies Shortlist<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Highlight new discoveries <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and research findings from the course\u2019s disciplines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Follow and integrate innovations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the disciplinary community\u2019s pedagogical research and praxis in each course.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Make connections between<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> course content and current disciplinary discoveries, happenings, debates, and questions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Make the course compelling<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, linking course content and skills learned to important questions in the discipline and ideally the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Communicate high expectations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and hold students close to the edge of their mastery to help all students reach their potential, creating a robust learning environment for all.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Model respect <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for intellectual property, hold high expectations for original content, and guide students in honest academic practices. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"prpl-drawer open\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Disciplinary Excellence&colon; Resources for Faculty<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.montclair.edu\/ofe_tl_discipline_excellence\/\">OFE&#8217;s Digital Commons page<\/a> for examples of Disciplinary Excellence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"faculty@montclair.edu\"><\/a> <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Resources and References<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healey, M. (2000). Developing the scholarship of teaching in higher education: A discipline-based approach. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Higher Education Research &amp; Development, 19<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2), 169-189.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kreber, C. (2009). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The university and its disciplines: Teaching and learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Routledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middendorf, J., &amp; Pace, D. (2004). Decoding the disciplines: A model for helping students learn disciplinary ways of thinking. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Directions for Teaching and Learning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">98<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1\u201312. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.montclair.edu:2048\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=eric&amp;AN=EJ761123&amp;site=eds-live&amp;scope=site\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/ezproxy.montclair.edu:2048\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=eric&amp;AN=EJ761123&amp;site=eds-live&amp;scope=site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miller, Y. J., &amp; Boman, J. (2017). Uncovering ways of thinking, practicing, and being through decoding across disciplines. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Directions for Teaching &amp; Learning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 150, 19\u201335. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.ezproxy.montclair.edu\/10.1002\/tl.20235\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi-org.ezproxy.montclair.edu\/10.1002\/tl.20235<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neumann, R., Parry, S. and Becher, T. (2002). Teaching and learning in their disciplinary context: A conceptual analysis. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studies in Higher Education<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 4, 405\u2013417.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pace, D., &amp; Middendorf, J. (2004). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decoding the disciplines: Helping students learn disciplinary ways of thinking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Jossey-Bass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parker, J. (2002). A new disciplinarity: Communities of knowledge, learning and practice.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching in Higher Education <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">7(4), 373-386.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riordan, T., &amp; Roth, J. L. (2005). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disciplines as frameworks for student learning: Teaching the practice of the disciplines<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Stylus Pub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><p><em>Last Modified: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 11:05 am<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information or help, please <\/span><a href=\"mailto:faculty@montclair.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">email <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Office for Faculty Excellence or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/montclair-faculty-excellence.libcal.com\/appointments\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">make an appointment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with a consultant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Resources by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">麻豆传媒在线 Office for Faculty Excellence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is licensed under a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Third-party content is not covered under the Creative Commons license and may be subject to additional intellectual property notices, information, or restrictions. 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