[etni] Fwd: re: HOTS
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From: Nathan Singer <nathansinger1181@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: HOTS
Debora,
Here's an even better one:
Why not have the entire LOG presented AS THE ORAL EXAM instead of
doing a separate project???
It makes perfect sense and saves tons of work.
Nathan
Debora wrote:
> This year I am teaching the HOTS literature program -- Log option --
> to a group of 20 English speakers, working parallel to another teacher
> who is doing the same with another group of twenty students. As
> nothing of the program was touched last year -- we have been obliged
> to do everyhing in one year. We have both been struggling to prepare
> the students for Module E and Module G as well as study the eight
> pieces without becoming advocates of superficialism -- and to a large
> extent we have succeeded.
>
> However, from the experience of this year, I would like to propose a
> relatively minor change (major changes would also be beneficial but I
> am putting them aside for the moment) to the HOTS program . The minor
> change is requiring that the entire LOG be presented at the oral
> bagrut exam, and not just the Bridging project. The reason I am
> suggesting this, is that the pupils work so hard on their LOGS, they
> should have a chance to present it officially and get feedback on
> their presentation. In addition, it would add the component that
> someone other than their teacher will be looking through their LOG.
> Moreover, the students would then have to think through the entire
> process of preparing the LOG in order to discuss the process at the
> oral bagrut.
>
> AS I have not yet taught a class doing the literature exam option, I
> am not sure how my suggestion would work with that group.
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