[etni] Re: Fwd: Re: Teaching HOTS
- From: rafi beigel <rafitalk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni.list@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:51:18 +0200
HEAR! HEAR! to all those dissenters-
Give us back our literature and take away the contrived, extruded answers
we are having to thrash into the children.
To all those who only spent their time teaching unseens, then you've
brought this horrendous mess upon yourselves.
To the rest of us who have always taught literature and WELL. this is a
disaster. no book, no serious guidelines , just rubric after rubric after
rubric- and most importantly, no answers to the literature exam that
students took in January- so what are we meant to expect in the summer?
More waffle?
When teaching my eleventh grade English speakers class how to make sure
that they use a higher order thinking skill and churn out format answers to
trite questions- rather than actually understand and appreciate what they
had read- one bright spark shouted out WTF!
I didn't have it in me to reprimand him- he said it so succinctly.....
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, ETNI list <etni.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Doug & Iris Mandel <dm9@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Teaching HOTS
>
> Evelyn,
> I can't agree with you more! I told my 11th graders we have finished
> the last piece for the log and their reaction shocked me. They
> cheered. I almost cried. I have always loved teaching the literature.
> My students have always loved learning it. But I feel the log is
> making my lessons contrived. You took the words right out of my
> mouth,"beating a dead horse"!
>
> What's the solution??
>
> Iris
>
>
> Evelyn wrote:
> > Those of you who have commented on the positive aspects of the HOTS have
> > written that it is much more interesting for your students than last year
> > (or previous years) when the focus was on the textbook, unseens, writing,
> > grammar, and a little literature. None of us probably disagrees with you.
> > Obviously, literature study is more interesting that repetitive
> exercises in
> > unseens, etc. However, as a teacher who has spent much time teaching
> > literature, discussing it, writing about it, going wild with it, the HOTS
> > still leave me cold! I am tired of beating a dead horse with exercise
> upon
> > exercise. Let me teach literature- background and all- let me find pieces
> > my students can both relate to and learn from (classics and modern), let
> me
> > find pieces and teach them without teaching down to them, and let me
> teach
> > them how to analyze as well as (with luck) appreciate literature without
> > thinking about thinking.
> > None of us who loves literature has asked the ministry to throw out lit.
> In
> > fact, we have always been happy to have literature included and we have
> made
> > it an important part of our curriculum- whether with our 4 pointers, our
> 5
> > pointers, and even some of our 3 pointers- but the HOTS program is not
> > literature...it is forcing higher order thinking skills on students using
> > English literature as a tool, rather than as a vibrant life force!
>
>
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