[etni] Fw: My two cents

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From: Esther Revivo - estherrv@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: My two cents

Recovering from fractured wrist and hard to type so excuse short form as 
painful:
1- Judy G., I too was shocked by the "pa'arim" between my magenim and the 
pupils' grades on module D. NEVER in all my years of teaching did I have 
such results! Anybody else in the same boat?

2- Agree with all previous teachers about literature. There is no excuse for 
being a lazy teacher. "Anything worth doing is worth doing right." Even in 
my horrendously weakest classes, I always managed to find cute easy poems 
and stories of interest for my pupils.

3- Several of our pupils are too poor to buy a walkman. (The school's staff 
has chipped in money to help finance more than one "ivchun" over the years.) 
And, I agree with Barry: I will do everything and anything to help out those 
pupils for whom the hatamot like hakraa are intended. It's the wealthy lazy 
pupils who simply shelled out money and thus got dumped on the bandwagon at 
our expense that gall me.

4-Songs are a fantastic method for teaching listening comprehension and new 
vocabulary. I do this following an exam when I want a "fun" thing to do (as 
the carrot after the stick :)

Download Billy Joel's "River of Dreams" and you'll hear a fast paced song 
that is like poetry. My pupils love it! I have many jigsaw and other 
activities to go with everything from the Beatles "Fool on the Hill," to A. 
Morissette's (spelling?) "Isn't it Ironic." Yes, this entertains pupils, but 
it is primarily an enjoyable tool for vocabulary enrichment and listening 
comprehension. (I wish I had these pages on my p.c.; most are hand-written 
from long ago, and I have no scanner, other wise I would give to all and 
sundry. If anybody is in the area of our Ulpana, I will gladly pass out 
copies!)

Shana Tova and good luck to everyone!
Esther Revivo
Ulpanat Tzvia Sedot Negev



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