---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: laurie ornstein <laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: the purpose of "unseens" and a HOTS comment I apologize for mis-writing the question before. The question was how HOTS helped him understand the poem better. Sorry. The pupil's answer remains the same. Laurie Mitzi wrote: > The HOTS are not supposed to help him understand problem solving. > Thinking about the problem solving process is supposed to help analyze > the story. Even if the kid thinks about problem solving on his own, > without the teacher presenting the process of defining the problem, > thinking of alternatives, choosing one and then trying it out, the > student can still understand that examining the problem solving > process in the piece can help understand the piece on a deeper level, > if the question is worded well. > Mitzi >> 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." ************************************** ** 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 ***************************************