being relevant is the key! teaching literature should make you contextually relevant and your...
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Being relevant is the key!
Teaching literature should make you contextually relevant and your analysis relative. Literature is integral to History and your teaching of literature should be history in the making.
The classroom is a live museum.
Authentic Learning is the integration of real historical events in the teaching of English such that the classroom becomes the springboard to the world beyond it. In effect this diminishes the misnomer that the ‘real world’ is ‘outside’ the domain of the classroom or the school.
The classroom is a live museum.
When what we teach is not made When what we teach is not made authentic through experience then, we authentic through experience then, we
have only passed on informationhave only passed on information
The classroom is a live museum.
Focus: teaching of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country.The Truth & Reconciliation Commission and its
relationship to the teaching of literature.
Traditional approach vs workbook approachhttp://www.info.gov.za/otherdocs/2003/trc/ch
The classroom is a live museum.
ContentStudy the novel but anchor it with real
experience! How?Pupils interview anti-apartheid activists in
their communities.In effect you get: Collaboration & Community
participation and involvement.
This idea is scalable…
ContentImagine how the teaching of any other novel
of social protest can be anchored with real experience! Lets talk on this…
Pupils can interview members of their communities on an issue that is contextually relevant.
Just think on this crazy example….
This idea is scalable…
Teach Dan Brown’s Davinci Code and request pupils to hook up with ‘conspiracy theorists’ in their communities and they should set up an open panel discussion in the community's hall! (Collaboration can be done world wide – live conferencing!)
Can you imagine how real and authentic that class is going to be over the months!
The problem > are you willing to explore.Imagine the issues that will come out given the fact
that the Vatican got involved with this book!
Slam dunk…Get the picture
Teaching in class
22%
Working in class
22%
Portfolio NCS work
24%
Extended opportunities
32%The Classroom is
different and is
connected to real
life situations.
Think about it! Think about it!
Do you sit and Do you sit and
do one thing all do one thing all
the time?the time?
Extended Opportunities
1. Pupils begin to use their interviews to write children's story books on Apartheid in preparation to write a
book for adults on Apartheid
2. Pupils then prepare themselves to be host of my Education talk programme on Cii – they will host
activists and talk about issues.
3. We still tap on those people we want collaboration with: for example – Mr. Mandela & Bishop Desmond
Tutu.
4. It allows pupils who you don’t actually teach to be part of the project and they can achieve great things.
e.g. Attiyyah Saloojee, Editor of the RIS Independent – because of her involvement she is one of the 4 finalists in
(gr.11) the SA Top Teen Achievers Award as at 18 September 2007.