[etni] Fw: RE: Haaretz articles on education also relevant to HOTS

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From: ELEANOR ZWEBNER <eleanorz541@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Haaretz articles on education also  relevant to HOTS

Excellent  reading for teachers and a reply to Batya  and  her  HOT remarks

2 relevant articles, indeed 2 articles that all educators should find of 
interest, both translated from the Hebrew editions of Haaretz and found in 
the English editions.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091699.html
Yochi Brandes—The failure behind the success:  Yochi found 2 exceptions to 
the general abysmal failure  of teaching Bible in the classroom

Doron Koren: "Dangerous Minds" – Problems, especially discipline, in the 
Israeli classroom as well as the curriculum
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094012.html

Author Yochi  Brandes, who was  a Bible teacher  before becoming a renowned 
author, discusses the academization of Bible in the classroom, causing it to 
become sterile prose instead of the world's greatest story.  Pupils are 
learning a lot of terminology instead of discussing the frailties of human 
beings.  She also reports that  many teachers ignore the peculiar fact that 
the Bible tells OUR story about THIS land – "the source of our identity and 
culture."

In last week's Hebrew magazine and this week's English version, literature 
critic, Doron Koren discusses his stint as a homeroom teacher and a Bible 
teacher in a junior high school in Bat Yam.  He too discusses the curriculum 
which has destroyed most teaching,  particularly on the junior high school 
level.  For example:  whole language:  the kids can't read; Bible, in 
addition to their inability to read it, he too discusses the sterilization 
of the greatest book of all.

EVERYTHING these two have written  is relevant to us as teachers in general 
and specifically to those of us who are having this HOTshot program shoved 
down our throats.  And of course, this does not include my  repeated 
comments  regarding the additional work, saving the MOE money at our expense 
because it will save the ministry one module of exams, and lastly, being on 
the battlefront  facing pupils, parents and often administrators,  when 
giving a BAGRUT grade which will no longer be a standardized exam.


Eleanor



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