[etni] Fwd: Re: Avi's observations
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From: Avi Tsur <tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Avi's observations
Laurie - I fully agree with you
Take care and all the best,
Avi
Laurie wrote:
> Dear Avi,
>
> I think there are many teachers (the silent majority?) who understand
> the need to standardize the teaching of literature to ensure that
> literature has its due place in our schools and thus, support the new
> bagrut. Despite all the teachers that come forward on etni to reaffirm
> how much they value and do teach literature (our staff among them), we
> know literature has been ignored by a great number of schools as they
> focus on preparing only for bagrut exams.
>
> We are also very appreciative of the autonomy that the LOG alternative
> affords us in terms of choosing pieces we like. We believe in the
> teaching of literature, not just in our own classrooms, but throughout
> the country.
>
> We have been frustrated for many years over the gap between what we
> are required to teach by the Ministry (good ideas that we support) and
> what is tested (or not) on the bagrut. We have been asking for
> literature to be back in the bagrut in a stronger way so as to remedy
> this, and thus, are in agreement with you on all of this.
>
> What is troubling and unacceptable to many of us is that we are not
> compensated for the extra work as are teachers of biology and civics.
> Their national administrators yelled and screamed and got these
> benefits for their teachers. It isn't enough to simply be recognized
> by our schools, and give ourselves strokes that we as English teachers
> work hard, or harder than other teachers, including time outside the
> classroom. It is upsetting that it has been left to the English
> teachers in the field to fight for more hours (schools laugh in our
> faces that 5 hours are recommended per week - if no one in the English
> Ministry is demanding that it be translated into money, it remains an
> eternally impotent suggestion at best ). It angers us we see no effort
> being made on our behalf to demand financial compensation for the
> extra work, when we see that colleagues in other fields are duly
> respected and compensated for efforts that will entail less work than
> what is expected in English.
>
> Once again, the problem is not goals of the new program. It is
> negligence with which it has been left to teachers to fight for proper
> conditions.
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