[etni] Re: A(n INTELLIGENT) question
- From: "Adele P. Raemer " <raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:05:39 +0300
Dear Talila,
No ignorance involved here - this is an intelligent question coming from
someone who has yet to do the course. It is not so much "infusing" as
"integrating" (hence the title of the course is "Integrating Higher Order
Skills in Literature Teaching"). The aim is to do both. One aim is to
encourage teachers to teach literature. Another aim is to empower our
students with tools that will help them analyze not only literature, but
other things they learn, in other subjects as well as in different realms of
their lives.
The integrating of the HOTS into the teaching of literature has many
benefits other than that: it is what allowed the Ministry to put literature
back on the map BIG time, it is an effective and efficient way to organize
our units of work and instill in us sound teaching practices that are all
too often overlooked or forgotten when we do our planning (methodological
issues such as sufficient emphasis on lower order thinking skills, explicit
instruction, metacognition, reflection, etc.)
I hope you find the opportunity to go to a session that is given that
explains this more thoroughly than I have the time to here... I have no
doubt that there will be informative sessions at ETAI. I can tell you that
for REED teachers, our study day is focusing specifically on this topic, and
I trust inspectors in other regions will be running introductory,
explanatory sessions, as well (if they are NOT, then call or write them and
request this to be done!)
I hope that clarifies it to some extent, at least.
Best of luck
Adele
Talila wrote:
At the risk of sounding really ignorant, I would be very thankful
to anyone who could explain what, exactly, does the sentence:
"Infusing HOTS with the Teaching of Literature" means.
I can't decide whether it means teaching HOTS through literature, vice vera
or something completely different.
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