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Education has encouraged me to show off what I know more than to genuinely learn. Remember the poetry recitation we used to have in our school classrooms? Where we were prescribed a specific poem, had to learn it by heart, and then recite it most gracefully, remembering all the words? I wonder how many poets would've been twisting in their graves upon knowing about this tradition! We barely understood the meanings of the lines we sung, were regimented into understanding the rules of poetry, and to have an individual interpretation of the poem was absolutely unheard of. English Education in India--like ICSE--is stuck at language very often, very stubbornly. No variation allowed, you have to know which dude said exactly what in Act 1 Scene 4 of Shakespeare. What's the character behind the voice saying it? Why did Shakespeare choose to write dialogue in that way? All this is considered unnecessary. Education often makes us worship poets without ever giving us an opportunity to become one. Have you had a similar experience with learning poetry or literature? I'd love to hear your story. #EducationReform #Learning #CriticalThinking #Poetry #Literature #EducationSystem #StudentVoices #CreativeLearning #EnglishEducation #ICSE

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Want to learn how to read poetry and enjoy it? Want to overcome your trauma of your English literature teacher? Here’s 3 tips to improve your appreciation of reading poetry: - in your own time -on your own terms Read this post and more on my Typeshare Social Blog: https://lnkd.in/eMR4zKp4

Inspire and engage students with a love of poetry! ELA-917: Poetry in English Classroom (7-12) is an online, standards-based course that explores a variety of methods for single-subject teachers to bring poetry into their classrooms. For more information about the course, check out https://lnkd.in/gePJjpsp #fpu #fresnopacific #continuingeducation #teachereducation #onlinelearning #professionaldevelopment #TeachingLiterature #storytelling

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My very excellent colleague Esther Sandys wrote all about the benefits of learning and performing GCSE poems for Poetry By Heart. The takeaways? 1) Converting a poem from paper to soundwaves is an interpretative act that leads to better understanding 2) Students are better equipped for comparison questions and the unseen element 3) It's a lot of fun! Read the full article from English teacher and veteran Poetry by Heart ambassador Esther over on our website: #englishliterature #gcseenglish #poetry https://lnkd.in/edJaTTTP

POETRY TEACHING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS Michael Rosen continues to be a guiding light for how I design my own poetry teaching - in workshops, within my project and on my Poetry Retreats. This blog is so clear about what can so often happen when we presume - wildly incorrectly - that the children have little worth saying and little worth listening to. No teacher ‘explicitly’ thinks this - or almost none - but in many of our actions, there is an implied lack of belief in and respect for children’s own experiences. FROM MICHAEL’s BLOG ‘I'm concerned by that, but also with the idea that educators should assume that the children don't have language and/or culture and that there should be any restriction on what poetry is, in terms of resources, books, collections and so on.’ Link below - read it and also, do yourself a favour and buy his book DID I HEAR YOU WRITE? It’ll change your teaching life.

This is a scenario all too familiar to English teachers. Even though they study it almost every single year, as soon as students leave the English classroom, it’s like poetry ceases to exist. You won’t find many students curling up at night with a good book of poetry. Part of the reason for this is that many students don’t know how to enjoy poetry. They know how to study poetry, but not how to read it just for the fun of doing so. For many students, poetry reading is inexorably linked to a very particular kind of classroom activity. We pore over its lines, dwelling over every word. In so doing, we risk smothering the hit of emotion that the best poetry provokes. We spend so much time analytically pulling apart a poem that we leave no space simply to feel it. In this article, I offer two concrete classroom strategies that will help your students enjoy the poetry that they study even more. Your students will see poetry not as something arduous and deliberate, but as something to take pleasure in. Each strategy—tried and tested in my classroom—inculcates a way of reading poetry that privileges its emotional pull. For the 'two concrete classroom strategies that will help your students enjoy the poetry that they study even more', by Andrew Atherton, Director of Learning and Research, read: https://lnkd.in/gnW_zpbB #emotionintoart #motivation #motivational #motivationalspeaker #motivationalspeaking

In Education Next, Assistant Professor of Literature Clay Greene explains why poetry should be read aloud in English class: "Horace, Milton, Shakespeare, and Shelley did not set out to write enigma codes to be deciphered by scholars. They composed beautiful verse meant to live beautifully on the human voice. To recite poetry is to discover (as students) or rediscover (as educators) the ability of poets to speak down through the generations, using us as mouthpieces. It is a way to keep the flame of civilization alive." https://lnkd.in/gp46fdWf