[etni] Fw: Re: Hots again
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- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 06:53:53 +0300
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From: "Marlene" <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hots again
You know that underachievers in elementary get private lessons/small groups
in Hebrew and Math, but not in English.
They are taught by a morah metakenet - teacher hours paid by the Ministry.
I think that either in a small group or employing a teacher's assistant to
help teach non readers - are necessary to help students keep up with the
rest of the class. Otherwise, they are just sitting there. Even if they have
their own workbook - without adequate teacher help - very few improve on
their own.
In a class of close to 40, few teachers are able to attend to individual
needs, without the help of volunteers, sherut leumi girls, student
teachers, etc. Why can't the Ministry establish a teacher's aide system?
Marlene
Phyllis wrote:
> I agree with you 100% that the students coming from the elementary
> schools are at a lower level every year, even in the 'good areas'. Not to
> mention the school by name, but last year my granddaughters had three
> English teachers in one year and the gap subsequently caused will NEVER be
> adequately closed.
>
> l. Most of the parents weren't even aware of this problem, 2. the
> principal decided that it could be closed the following year and 3. some
> parents gave their children private lessons. Those who had the private
> lessons are the only ones to date who are up to the required level!
>
> Therefore, if students enter junior high with inadequate vocabulary and
> reading/writing/grammar/speaking skills, how does the Board of Education
> think these students can be taught the HOTS skills later on down the road
> when the teachers are trying to close the huge gaps.......or don't they
> think? Don't they see the 'big picture'? It's easy to say 'DO IT' but WE
> are
> the ones in the classrooms daily.
>
> There have been so many complaints yet they seem to fall on deaf ears.
> Literature [and subsequently the HOTS skills] need a good basis, one our
> students don't seem to be coming with from their elementary schools. Is it
> because of poor teaching skills on the part of the teacher? Overcrowded
> classrooms? Too few hours? or a combination of all three? Why doesn't the
> Board of Education deal with these problems from the BOTTOM instead of
> forcing/demanding things from the top?
Ben wrote:
>> I have been following the hot debate with interest.
>> I feel we are arguing about the cream on the cake - students who can
>> handle literature are fine by me.
>> Our real problem is the ever increasing number of students who come out
>> of
>> primary school without being close to the required standard in English
>> (or
>> Math).
>> It occurs to me that the years of budget cuts hacking into the primary
>> system have really taken their toll, and that this is the real situation
>> that has to be rectified.
>> If most of my work in Junior and High School is trying to close enormous
>> gaps that should never have been there in the first place, - ( one's
>> heart
>> asks how could all this not have been detected and fixed when the
>> problems, and students, were still small) - literature is frankly not
>> really
>> a big help in this.
>> I love teaching literature, and wish it could be done more often.
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