[etni] Fwd: Why I dropped out of the HOTS program

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:37:33 +0200

From: Phylllis Oded - phylliso@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Why I dropped out of the HOTS program

February, 2010

Dear Fellow English Teachers;

I am writing this letter to inform you that, for the very first time in my
life, I have dropped out of a class, namely the HOTS program.

Up till now I have always [enthusiastically or otherwise] attended all the
available courses offered for English teachers, from the Holocaust lessons
in Acco to the 5-day overnight course at Oranim with Judy Steiner and Penny
Ur in 1991. Some have helped me become a better educator and in all of them
I have forged lifelong friendships, lifelines into the future with other
teachers that I have been able to qvetch to, get advice from and share
materials with.

I was determined to see the HOTS on-line program through [to the bitter
end.] Our teacher was enthusiastic and caring. All the others in this course
seem to breeze through it. It seemed that only I was in a muddle: not only
did I have great difficulty in finding the required poems I needed to
analyze within the site, but I simply couldn't relate to any of the given
material through the HOTS materials.

I tried, really I did, but it seemed that my interpretations were always
wrong. Take for example, the poem Happiness by Roger McGough

(to read the rest of my letter, go to -
http://www.etni.org/letters/HOTS_Phyllis_Oded.doc  )

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