[etni] Re: Ahead of Our Time

From: judy <judyewc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:58 +0200
WE are ahead of our time?   Adele, your link goes to the Great Books
Federation, which has been around for several decades.  They have wonderful
ways oif teaching literature, and they gave amazing hishtalmuyot here during
the '90's.  We had a GBF project at Shaar HaNegev that was very successful.
Then, as usual, the Ministry said, "Well, that was nice.  What tasty tidbit
shall we sample now?"

If you google HOTS, you will find Bloom's Taxonomy - hardly new.  If
teachers-to-be aren't learning about that, then we certainly are in
trouble.  But giving it a new name and pretending it's an innovation just
isn't honest.

And a word to some teachers who have been saying that HOTS have to be taught
in elementary school - not everything should be taught in the earliest
grades.  As children grow and develop, their capacity for High Order
Thinking does, too.  The earliest grades are when they learn LOTS, and
gradually they progress to HOTS.  English teachers should be a part of this
progress.  Of course, in the present school system, where we have very few
instances of teachers of different subjects and disciplines working together
- don't get me started.

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