[etni] Fw: Re inventing the Wheels of Change (Foundation level benchmarks)
----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Silverbeg - barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re inventing the Wheels of Change (Foundation level benchmarks)

Dear Everybody,
Our school, which shall remain nameless, has been given a tremendous kick in the butt, and is involved in some GREAT PROJECT FOR CHANGE. All the department heads are scurrying around like ants... wait a minute, those are ants. The department heads are over there. They are all working with professionals who are teaching them how to plan and assess the coming year. Our English team has started working on something called MECHVANNIM, with a het. I'm not sure what a Mechvan is, but it smells a lot like a benchmark. 
   Good thing I didn't step in it.
Anyway, before i run off and start making Mechvanim at a very explicit and elementary level; I'd really really really appreciate seeing what someone else has done; The ones in the No-Longer-New Curriculum are too general for what we're doing. EG: under the heading of frequency expressions, we are trying to define which expressions the pupil will recognize, place correctly in the sentence, and generate accurate sentences at each grade level. Maybe these are pre requisite skills. Whatever.
I am also preparing lists of questions that pupils will learn how to answer for oral proficiency at each grade level of junior high. 

Any advice, any samples of similar lists would be greatly appreciated.

Have a good summer,

Barry Silverberg
Disclaimer: The above requests are in no way connected with any school, real or imaginary, in Kiriat Shmona. 
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