Poetry is not a tool for teaching other things

Today 's Ofsted report criticizes the attention expressed by art professionals for years, including criticizing the content of our school rather than the content of poetry teachings. There is no doubt that poetry is used everywhere in the school system - especially important stages 1 and 2 - encourage language and literacy, keep in touch with various subjects meaningfully, and note attention to technical details To pay. Mild poetry completes many of these non-poetic purposes and other types. But what the teacher is trying to pass through until the theory of education asks for something is that some poetry for educational aid, practice, and - for teenagers - some random puzzles that continue to get increasingly boring, that Role is to train students Scores in open exams

Poetry is not educational, but from that we can learn a lot. It is also not a special rhyme and instrument use mode. In every age or culture, poetry works as highly convincing, more fun than daily sports - beautiful, memorable, imaginative and disobedient. It was words of ceremonies and rituals, songs, and special occasions. These things look too obvious. However, they are not obvious in contemporary British educational thought.

Why is this so important? Utilitarian reactions are for young people (or older people) to learn more about what they like and to learn "better" as child-centered learning shows. . Another reason is indispensable in environments where this source of well-being - shared by common public schools where schools - are not complicated, rather than enjoying the cafeteria's tip bar alone.

Like many of my colleagues, everything I use and love in my work or life is from home. It must be one of the last products of postwar education revival, such as artist Robin Tanner or a musician using Honda Hodaly's method. . Poetry - all that red tooth and the real thing in the excitement of the nails - provides complex pleasures like the relationship of sound and emotion to achieve by simulating such development. Young people are fascinated by the quality of "poetry" that goes beyond the classroom. Mystery, charm, space of dreams

One morning at Ysgol Cwmpadarn when I was 6, Mr. Griffith read the opening ceremony of Under Milk Wood. I did not understand almost anything - I was blown away. It is this way to understand the poet that our educators need to master: perhaps dialogue with art experts. Health and social care, and jobs in prison, of course the history of people who "failed" in long-term education, complex and rich poetry was much more familiar than bright poetry. People make laugh politely, but on the other hand they are attention, feelings, and "ownership". Let's hope that the risk of mixing in the UK classrooms is small.

But poetry brings many benefits to the classroom, but I hesitate to use poetry as a tool to teach grammar customs. Even the beginning of the poetic meaning of the classroom will reduce even personal or even transcendence of reading poetry. Billy Collins explained the latter as a "depreciation" behavior that covered the poem under the expansion of the importance of its interpretation. In his poem "Introduction to Poetry" he wrote as follows. What does that really mean? "

Do you teach poetry in some way and ask the students to think that "Poems must be tied on a chair and used for torture and repentance"? Do you want to know why so many students hate to read something poetry? The former American poet winner Billy Collins said that the time has come for you to change 180 degrees to poetry in class. The teacher who followed Collins said he was right. Including: contributions from students, their view on poetry is 180 yen

I am not planning to teach my children to my children. How to teach poetry as taught as a literature course But you can not spend enough time on poetry to analyze the meaning of poetry or measure structure. I will ask them to read some, introduce them to other poets and proceed. I read the children's poetry aloud. 72 5.88 1.19 4.00 We encourage students to participate in the interpretation of children 's poetry. 72 5.61 1.48 5.00 I gave students the opportunity to quietly read the poems of their children. 72 5.28 1.56 6.00 Note. n = 72; ns is slightly different due to lack of data