[etni] Fwd: the purpose of "unseens" and a HOTS comment

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:11:00 +0200

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From: laurie ornstein <laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: the purpose of "unseens" and a HOTS comment

Hi all,

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."

Laurie
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[etni] Fwd: the purpose of "unseens" and a HOTS comment

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