Poetry can be taught in many different ways. Teachers can read a poem along with a slideshow that matches the words, or outside in a park on the grass, or ask the students to listen to the poem with their eyes closed and imagine it. After the students listen to it, they interpret it from their point of view. Those are only the tip of the iceberg. You can find better ways with just a little creativity and thinking outside the box.
However, in most of the schools, poetry is taught in a very banal and boring way. Teachers read the poem in the classroom and begin to analyze it and try to find its' meaning by force. Students get homework to deal with the poem, and in a short time are tested on it. They want to succeed and get a good grade, so they learn from their teachers' summary of the poem, and once they get their grade they forget the poem. This way is meant to teach the students how to use different thinking skills and analyze a poem, and has nothing to do with poetry and its' beauty.
I, personally as a student, would like teachers to teach us students poetry in a creative and fun way, like listen to it outside in a park with my eyes closed, so that we could actually enjoy it and won't see it as something we have to do for our grade. Students should experience the poem in order to understand its' meaning in their own. Once they do that, they will be able to get a good grade without learning from the teachers' summary and will remember the poem since they understood it in their own.
To sum up, there are many ways to teach poetry, but only the creative and liberated ones are the ones that can make the students enjoy and understand it in their own.
Excellent! Very interesting.
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Daphna
However, in most of the schools, poetry is taught in a very banal and boring way. Teachers read the poem in the classroom and begin to analyze it and try to find its' meaning by force. Students get homework to deal with the poem, and in a short time are tested on it. They want to succeed and get a good grade, so they learn from their teachers' summary of the poem, and once they get their grade they forget the poem. This way is meant to teach the students how to use different thinking skills and analyze a poem, and has nothing to do with poetry and its' beauty.
I, personally as a student, would like teachers to teach us students poetry in a creative and fun way, like listen to it outside in a park with my eyes closed, so that we could actually enjoy it and won't see it as something we have to do for our grade. Students should experience the poem in order to understand its' meaning in their own. Once they do that, they will be able to get a good grade without learning from the teachers' summary and will remember the poem since they understood it in their own.
To sum up, there are many ways to teach poetry, but only the creative and liberated ones are the ones that can make the students enjoy and understand it in their own.
Excellent! Very interesting.
(96)
Daphna
