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Poetry Pedagogy

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Hi Everyone and Happy 2008!

Most of you have taken the opportunity to share a draft poem and enter into dialogue with your colleagues about their poems. If you haven't done that yet, please still give it a whirl. It is important for teachers of poetry (and of writing in general) to engage in the writing process themselves. How can we ask our students to do what we are unwilling to do ourselves?

Since we have spent some time as writers, sharing our writing, let's now take the opportunity to discuss the teaching of poetry. We have two questions for you to begin with, the first of which is broken into two parts.

1) What have you learned about poetry teaching in your first teaching placement(s)?

a) practical issues of teaching poetry

b) your critical reflections on the way poetry texts are used in the classroom/the curriculum.

2) If you have had an opportunity to teach poetry during your placement(s), did you use or adapt and of the ideas presented to you at the Faculty of Education? If so, please share what you did and how successful these have been.

Wherever possible, focus on specific examples for both questions.