[etni] Fwd: re: the purpose of "unseens" and a HOTS comment
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From: sbshai <sbshai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: the purpose of "unseens" and a HOTS comment
That's what's so precious about this population: you can count on an honest
answer!
The rest MAY give us similarly frank answers in class, but they realize -- on
their own -- what they must write for the logs (even though the same teacher
is usually being addressed); that's how jaded they become when a mark
is involved!
Batya
Laurie wrote:
> I totally agree that "unseens" are for testing, not teaching. They do
> not build one upon the other. Let's teach reading and reading
> comprehension.
> Of course, we need to give our pupils a taste of how to tackle unseens
> for their exams, including Bagrut, but let's teach English and not
> Bagrut!
> Slightly veering off this topic but still Bagrut-related....
> I was helping a special needs native speaker with his LOG and one of
> the questions he had to answer was how the HOTS had helped him in
> understanding problem solving. He was quite frank. "It did not help me
> at all. I used my own intelligence."
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