Por: carmen.hidalgo

carmen.hidalgo — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:36:06 +0000

Hello Raquel,
You are absolutely right. Of course we have to make our students practice learning by heart and offer them a variety of mnemonic techniques in order to train their brains, but the problem at this point, as you said, is that learning by heart has become a bored routine in schools today. At least it was a bored topic in my times.
Nowadays, it is implementing new useful techniques and resources that convert classes into something more dynamic and cooperative among the pupils. However, there is not a clear schema of how to do it. Some teachers want to try new ways of teaching but sometimes they don’t know what to do or how to carry this out in class.
For that reason it is important to update ourselves. As you well said Raquel, we can manage memorization and saying poems aloud but also it is important to consider other options, such as creating a poem or performing it, we also can ask them what the poem inspire them, or what they think is the poem talk about, etc. In my opinion, I think that “playing” with poems will offer pupils the opportunity to consider them been inside their memories for a long time and not only for the exam. May be they don’t remember which one says what, but they will keep them as something good that they learnt in school.

Por: Raquel Fernández Fernández

Raquel Fernández Fernández — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:31:52 +0000

Thanks, Carmen. I consider that learning by heart is a good strategy too, and we need to help students develop their mnemonic techniques. However, if poetry is always introduced in the same way, they will think that’s the normal thing to do with poems. It’s a pity!

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