[etni] Re: Flogging Billy Collins
- From: Mitzi Geffen <mitzi100@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: drjamesbacker@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 19:52:25 +0200
I strongly disagree with the idea that this module is "one-size-fits-all".
There is so much more flexibility in this program than in almost any other
subject studied for the bagrut. Though textbooks have been published that
can be used with the module, you can choose to use them or not, and you can
also choose to use parts of them and adapt or create your own version of
questions, exercises and activities for the rest. You can even do the log,
and have a much wider selection of pieces to choose from. That's not what I
call one-size-fits-all!
Mitzi
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:22 AM, James Backer <drjamesbacker@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Greetings, all!
> Billy Collins poem is really a nice one: short, easy enough
> to teach, and full of irony for both teachers and students.
>
> The very necessity of using the bureaucratic,
> one-size-fits-all system of HOTS with this poem drives home many of the
> points
> that we teachers, in EFL classrooms, have been making for the last two
> years.
> Obviously, the bureaucrat who included Introduction to Poetry wasnt
> using *real*
> higher order thinking skills that day.
>
> Jimmy
> **************************************
> ** Join ETNI on Facebook
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/
> ** ETNI Blog and Poll
> http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/
> ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org
> ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx
> ***************************************
>
>
--
Mitzi
**************************************
** Join ETNI on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/
** ETNI Blog and Poll
http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/
** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org
** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
** help - ask@xxxxxxxx
***************************************
Other related posts: