[etni] Fw: 12th graders without projects....

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From: "sara g" <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 8:26 PM
Subject: 12th graders without projects....


there are 12th graders without project in schools that do projects in
the 12th grade and have teachers in the irgun. we are on sanctions
from october (i think) and are not doing projects in high school.

if the irgun and MOE don't solve this, next year we will have more
kids without projects in the 12th grade.

we usually do 2 projects - in 10th and 11th grade, and the kids can
chose which one to present in the oral bagrut. last year we didn't do
projects in 10th grade , because of the strike. this year we didn't do
in 11th grade because of the sanctions.

  sara g


Esther wrote:
> Laurie's article and reference to math convinced me to bring the following
> to your attention:
> Professor Amos Aultshuler recently published an article in the alumni
> magazine of Michlala Yerushalayim, Bayit Ve'gan. He is the former 
> inspector
> responsible for bagrut exams in Math in Beer Sheva who has taught on the
> faculty of the Michlala for more than 30 years.
>
> His article mourns the fact that each year, pupils arriving to his college
> classroom (majoring in mathematics) are less and less qualified then 
> former
> years. They are not less intellectually gifted, rather they have acquired
> far less basic mathematic skills than pupils of say 25 years ago. (Sound
> familiar, folks???)
>
> I am quoting from his article, translating as best as I can, "...I will 
> give
> you an example of "yeridat ha'dorot" in my field. In a particular course I
> have been teaching for years, the amount of material I manage to cover
> during the year is less than half of what I used to be able to cover,
> because of this lack of sufficient background in basic mathematics..... I
> must instead use precious time teaching skills that in former years pupils
> had already mastered"
>
> SO, here is more proof that the "yeridat ha'dorot" we see in our English
> classrooms is part of the universal morass of the Israeli educational
> system. Witness this week when I brought a lovely article about Anne Frank
> to my 9th and 10th grade class at our Ulpana. Even in my hakbatza Alef
> group, most of the girls had no idea who she was!!!!!! I told them how
> shocked I was! This lack of basic general knowledge is becoming absurd!!
>
> Regarding bringing the projects into the room when a pupil is orally 
> tested,
> I was told this many years ago, and have insisted my pupils do so. I feel
> that even if it is not specifically written (in which case, pupils 
> shouldn't
> be penalized for NOT bringing it in,) it is advisable. For, when I had to
> defend my M.A. thesis, I obviously zeroxed a copy for the professors 
> present
> and related to information appearing in my work. Thus I feel that 
> questions
> on the project should be answered with the project at hand. When pupils 
> open
> their work to a particular place in the project when answering a question,
> what better way to prove that this is, indeed, their work, and not 
> something
> downloaded; copied; borrowed; etc.
>
> I agree with Mr. Dov Bloom: why in heavens are there 12th graders without
> projects? This probably is due to the same teachers who likewise neglected
> to teach literature! BTW: It is advisable to keep complete projects under
> lock and key in English rooms until the oral bagrut so that they won't be
> misplaced. (This we learned the hard way after parents mistakenly threw 
> out
> projects during Pesach cleaning; etc. :)


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