[etni] Let's Get Thru this like Adults ( Re Current Hots flareup)
- From: Barry Silverberg <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rachcb1@xxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:26:34 +0200
As always, I am in awe of those who can devote more than 20 words to this
issue.
Here is the obvious solution:
Please don't tell anyone you got it from me.
But if we're going to get thru this, we'll have to fake it.
This is probably the reason why the cheating issue has just flared up at the
same time as the HOTS debate.. Teachers are looking for ways
to fake our way through, using tactics picked up from students, lawyers,
their parents, driving teachers, doctors, con men and women. Did I say
lawyers? ,local politicians, national politicians. For a start, I'm going
to have a log tatooed on my inner thigh.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Borenstein" <rachcb1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:03 PM
Subject: [etni] more about HOTS
> I've been following the comments on HOTS, for and against, and two
> features
> stand out. Those who have a highly motivated 5 point class tend to enjoy
> the
> program more than others. Those who teach weak 4 pointers are less
> optimistic. I also noticed something else, which is also related to where
> one teaches. Those, like me, who teach in an Ulpana, feel that it's
> impossible to cover everything, especially with four pointers, but I'm
> sure
> it's not just us. I wrote an entire breakdown of how hard it is to cover
> the
> material when the projects were introduced, taking the long school days
> and
> number of cancelled classes into account. Not only have things not changed
> for the better, they've gotten worse.
> I currently teach a twelfth grade 3-4 point class(and even though they
> can't
> be together once HOTS come into play, that doesn't mean the school has the
> budget to divide them. 3 pointers will be forced to be 4 pointers). It's a
> small class, only 13 girls: All but two have hakraat sheelon or shichtuv,
> one has her entire test read to her ('vocally'). At least 4 have ADHD. I
> haven't seen 70% of my class since the winter bagrut and have no clue how
> they expect to get a tziun magen for the final module, let alone pass.
> Covering two short stories with them last year and one play with them this
> year was hard enough when I tried to fit each one in, the "old fashioned
> way", within a week and a half or less. The HOTS program says students
> have
> to make up the work they've missed - for girls who are barely in school
> because of multiple days off looking for sherut leumi or undergoing army
> tests, planning for Chodesh Adar followed by bagrut exams, and NO
> MOTIVATION.when should they make it up? Do they even care? Are the seven
> components going to bring them begging for English class? Gone are the
> discussions in English on current events, and other "fun" material with no
> strings attached. There's no time.
> In the last few days, I've been sitting on a UP for Thank You, Ma'm for LD
> students for a hishtalmut (why, oh why, do LD students who struggle with
> English, have two short stories with Ebonics?????). Literature, listening
> comprehension, unseens, vocabulary, a project and all the key components
> for
> every piece of literature.WHEN????? Did I mention I teach another 135
> students per week, with everything that entails? I've already cut back to
> teaching part time in the MOE b/c the amount of work was literally
> detrimental to my health. Working out of the system is keeping me going,
> which is very sad, indeed. Once I have to work on HOTS on a regular
> basis,
> especially in multiple classes, I don't see myself lasting too much
> longer.
> Now that's a lesson in Cause and Effect!
> Rachelle
>
>
>
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