[etni] Re: Meitzav test
- From: Liya Barak <liahb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: momara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0200
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Finally the histery is over, and we can return back to normal teaching! Did
I say" normal"? and what about the "wasted" months which were dedicated
solly to preparing for the "MEIZAV"? Wake up teachers! What have we been
doing for the last months? We have been cheating ourselves. What did we
want to prove? That we are excellent teachers, that our schools are reaching
results that are far above the norms, that we are cooperating with the
system. Unfortunately, it happens to be, the same system we are opposing, or
actually, yearning to improve... We're doing that by feeding it with
distorted data. On the one hand, we witness in our soul and blood, that we
are in desperate need for assistance, for adjusting material to different
population etc. On the other hand - when THE DAY comes - we exempt our weak
pupils from doing the test (without warning them. I've met some real
frustrated kids who don't understand why they were not allowed to attend the
test, .One of them told me: I'm probably "mefager"... In other cases, pupils
reported that the teachers actually "helped" them find the answers. In
other cases pupils were simply told to stay at home... They didn't even
have to fake an excuse. )What does all this tell about US? What message are
we teaching our pupils? A test which is supposed to mirror the state of the
education, actually mirrors nothing but US!! GOOD SIMHAS and don't forget to
be update with the class curriculum! Or you'll be punished by the
inspector...
P.S . All this excludes, by definition ,some Zadikim in Sedom...LIYA:
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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: [etni] 5th grade Meitzav test
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>
> Thanks so much to Renee for her professional and careful comments about
the
> test yesterday. I too felt so badly for the kids that were trying to hard
to
> figure out what was being asked of them. I was able to stop the tape in
one
> class and give the kids time to think but the "official" in the other
class
> would not allow it and i wasn't there to insist. There was just not enough
> time for the kids to think and figure out what was being asked of them.
>
> The "weekly newspaper" section was so difficult. I think some students
would
> have had difficulty with the same task even if it was in Hebrew. What is
the
> point of frustrating the kids and making them feel so inadequate? In my
> opinion some of the questions and answers seemed designed to trick them.
>
> To whoever is involved in designing these tests: Please include elementary
> school teachers who are currently in the field to help design these tests
in
> the future.
>
>
> The only consolation is that we can now get back to teaching normally.
>
> mara
>
> > Grade 5 - I think that many parts of the test (especially the accessing
> > information from written texts, otherwise known as reading comp) tried
to
> > assess the benchmarks that should be reached by the END of the
foundation
> > level e.g the end of grade 6. More specifically:
> > Listening 1 was fair; even easy.
> >
> > Listening 2 was more difficult, but doable if the teacher was allowed to
> > stop the tape while the pupils marked each answer, in order to give the
> kids
> > time to think (and we DO want them to think, don't we?)
> >
>
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