[etni] Fw: re: History in English
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- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:20:52 +0200
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From: Amanda Caplan - amandacaplan@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: History in English
I have discussed this idea several times in school with both history and
science teachers. The bottom line is that it takes two to tango!
In order for it to work the whole team needs to agree as students are
divided for English and the science teachers don't want only some of their
students learning material in English, so all the English teachers need to
teach it. There needs to be considerable flexibility on both sides. When I
suggesed it there was always one teacher who agreed and the others didn't.
As I teach kids who learn history / science with different teachers, it just
didn't work out.
Mitzi says, quite rightly, that the English teachers don't have the
necessary knowledge. The level of knowledge required where I teach is
attainable. In addition, I envisaged teaching an enrichment program to
history etc rather than the core material. I think her point about the level
of Hebrew is a good one. The only problem is that I don't know how much
emphasis is given to the Hebrew side of things in non-language topics.
Judging by my pupils writing abilities, not very much!
Having been so negative, I want to add that I would love to teach this way.
It would mean the end of 'We don't learn anything in Englsih anyway' talk
and it would be interesting for us the teachers!
Amanda
Nehama wrote:
>I have thought of a similar idea for a few years now.
>In order to make our teaching relevant to the pupils
>what is better than making it part of the curriculum of
>other subjects. In this way there is no more "there is
>nothing to study for the English exam" excuse.
>My vision is teaching parallel to other subjects, part
>of the material or supplementary to it. For instance,
>one month we teach about the industrial revolution at
>the same time as the History teacher does. The month after
>that, we teach about rain forests with the geography
>teacher. etc.
>The pupils are tested at the same time on what they learnt
>in the Hebrew and English classes - content wise. Of course
>in the English class we use the texts we teach also for
>teaching English as we always do i.e. grammar, vocab, writing etc.
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