[etni] Fw: re: literature

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:08:58 +0200
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From: Sandra Keren - sandrakeren@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: literature


Hi Jennifer,
I totally disagree with you. True our kids need to learn English but we are 
first and foremost educators and as educators we need to teach our students 
what they need to be better human beings and that includes HOTS - Higher 
Order Thinking Skills.
As English teachers I believe we are privileged. We can teach anything 
through English!
I always try to include in my lessons (as I believe most English teachers 
do) relevant things kids should learn (Alcoholism, drugs, smoking, AIDS and 
much more...)
I also believe HOTS should be taught in EVERY subject in school. If our 
students become thinking students we have done our job as educators and we 
can do that while teaching English.
I was not in the pilot for the literature program but I am one of the lucky 
people who works in a school that has tried to infuse HOTS into every 
subject in school. I have used HOTS in my lessons and it makes the lesson 
much more interesting and the kids really enjoy it!
So try it out before turning it down!


Jennifer wrote:
>I think that Chaya Ovnat has expressed perfectly why there should be
reservations about the HOTS /literature or literature /HOTS program, and
Esther Revivo has once again pointed out the problems it poses in practice.

>I love books and literature.  My family and I have just spent a good part 
>of
Saturday going over Browning's My Last Duchess, and Donne's 'Death Be Not
Proud', but I don't think we have the time or the necessity to do this sort
of thing with the average pupil, because, though I hate to say this, it does
come at the expense of learning basic English , Chaya's "essential
prerequisites."

>This is not to say that average or weak students should not be taught
literature, but it must be carefully chosen, and certainly not through
meta-learning, and not at the expense of learning the language.  This is not
Europe, where language learning is often more of an acquaintance with how
foreign languages work, so that it will ease study at a later point in life
of a particular language.  Here, our pupils need to know the actual
language, and I sometimes think that MOE has forgotten this.




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