[etni] Re: Fw: literature course
- From: "Michele Ben" <mggben@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:07:46 +0200
Dear Bari,
As a dedicated professional who plans lessons, checks homework, checks
quizzes, checks tests, plans activities, attends meetings and more meetings,
meets with pupils and parents, invests in professional development by
reading professional literature and supporting our professional organization
(ETAI), attends in-service training courses and does other work related
activities, I sincerely resent the following sentence that I copied from
your letter:
"Fortunately, our work hours are shorter than most other sectors, allowing
us time to do these courses."
Our work hours are NOT shorter than most other sectors. In fact, our
work hours are LONGER than ALL other sectors. I once kept track of all the
time I invest in school related duties EXCEPT FOR histalmuyot, and
discovered that I work a 65-70 hour work week on average. This means that
for every hour we spend teaching, we spend at least 1.5 hours and up to 2.5
hours a week doing all the other things required by our job.
One of the reasons we are so undervalued and disrespected as
professionals is because people think that we work fewer hours than others.
This is simply NOT TRUE. Furthermore, I'd like to see businessmen, lawyers
or hi-tech people stand on their feet for 5-6 hours a day in a steaming hot
room with sweat dripping down their backs doing their job. I'd like to see
them buy their own office supplies. I'd like to see them pay out of their
own pockets for their own computer that's used for work . I'd like to see
them wait in line for a toilet at work with only five minutes to spare. We
do a great deal of what's required of us as professionals as volunteers. We
should be paid double our salaries, and I'm being conservative. Our work
hours are NOT shorter than most other sectors.
We are dedicated professionals who invest a great deal of time and
effort into our work. We need to recognize that. And other sectors need to
recognize and understand that as well. Please, NEVER say that our work
hours are shorter than most other sectors.
Happy New Year and Gmar Hatimah Tovah,
Michele
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Please note that this is not an official answer.
>
> The course is 14 meetings of 4 academic hours (3 hours) each. I assume
> that there will be assignments and things we are supposed to try in class.
> I seriously doubt it would be possible to do this in the 10 days between the
> 20th of June and the 30th.
>
> The literature changes were announced well over a year ago and there was a
> literature pilot last year that was announced, as well. I don't remember
> when this year's in-service course was announced, but I certainly knew about
> it before September 1st and I'm not a coordinator.
>
> Not having done the course yet, I can't say what I think about the new
> literature module, but I do want to say that I view teaching as a profession
> and as professionals, we must do in-service training. Fortunately, our work
> hours are shorter than most other sectors, allowing us time to do these
> courses. Like everyone else, I am a very busy person -- I teach over a full
> misra, I have a house and a family, I tutor in the afternoons and I have a
> physically demanding hobby that takes up a lot of my time (at least 10 hours
> a week). In addition to the literature course, I have to take a second
> course this year with weekly meetings of 3 hours each (it's a two-year
> course and I've been asked by my school to take it). I won't say that I
> jump at every opportunity to take an in-service course, but when I'm asked
> to do so, I just view it as part of the job that I must do if I want others
> to respect me as the professional that I am.
>
> Gmar hatima tova to everyone.
>
> Bari
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Ask_Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: gelbard@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: literature course
>>
>> Dear Etniers!
>> Sorry to bring up an old subject again, but I wanted to ask something
>> about
>> the literature course we have to do.
>> It is nearly impossible to do a 56 hour course while teaching full time
>> and
>> trying to keep a house together! Oh, and I forgot to mention that most of
>> us
>> will be doing courses that we registered for before we even heard of the
>> literature changes!
>> Would it be possible to do the course during the days from the end of term
>> for high school, until the end of the elementary school term? That way our
>> younger children are in school and gan anyway, and it doesn't interfere
>> with
>> our home routines.
>> Just a thought!
>> Any possibility of such a thing?
>> Gmar Hatima Tova!
>> Sara Gelbard
>>
>>
>>
>>
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