TLAD, or Thinking Like a Disciplinarian is based on the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan and her quest to take students deeper into content and thinking skills by adopting multiple perspectives utilized by real world professionals. TLAD is based on the idea of introducing students to the recourses, tools, thinking skills, methods professionals in the field utilize daily. While we want to practice integrating TLAD into our everyday teaching, we must first expose our students to what each Discipline is