Definitely FOOD for THOUGHT, In response to the Haaretz article: 1) For all those who said it wasn't being taught in L1... 2) What methodologies are they using to teach them? Is the teaching of the strategies done intensively and with planning? Were the teachers trained? 3) Wouldn't it be helpful to students if they could learn these strategies in all subjects and then most probably they would do better on everything? 4) It probably doesn't mean a whole lot for the first run of these exams because teachers are only leanring how to do this for the first time. 5) If at first you don't succeed.....don't teach students how to think? Sounds sad to me. I know, let's let them griney groley there way through the bagrut and their lives.....that would be best...... C'mon, are we educators or bagrut babysitters? -Judie ----------------------------------------------- ** The ETNI Rag ** http://www.etni.org/etnirag/ Much more than just a journal ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------