[etni] Re: Oz Latmura: the Prequel
- From: "sbshai" <sbshai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <judyewc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:55:34 +0200
Judy, your message is (sadly) very well expressed and reflective of many (if
not most) of your colleagues' feelings.
My theory for the reason we're so often dumped upon, unfairly overloaded,
etc., is simply that (on the whole) we accept everything uncomplainingly --
so we're actually inviting mistreatment.
It may be the Inspectorate's job to create new programs, for example, but
they should be proposed gradually rather than thrown at us as a final edict.
(For several reasons, inviting responses to a pilot program is not the way
to go.) If we're
really "partners" -- as the title of a new forum on the Inspectorate's site
grandly proclaims -- we should be treated with the dignity and respect that
all our dedicated efforts warrant, instead of being made to feel like the
soldiers in "The Charge of the Light Brigade": "Theirs not to reason why /
Theirs but to do or die"!
The HOTS protest is the first time teachers have banded together (at least,
as far as I know) to say "Dayeinu" to another so-called innovative program
that is not suitable for everyone (both teachers AND students). To the
Inspectotate's credit, some revisions have been made to restructure the
program and make it more palatable across the board ; however, there are
still major holes in the fabric that impede its proper implementation.
That is why it's very important to continue to express our concerns en
masse. I can be contacted for sample letters in English (2 versions) and
Hebrew (written by a school in the North this time) that merely require the
signature of your staff before they're sent to the proper officials.
If we're required to overhaul our methods for teaching literature, it seems
only just that the powers that be should seriously consider our concerns.
This will be beneficial for all of us, regardless of our (experienced)
reaction to the program!
Chodesh tov to all,
Batya
----- Original Message -----
From: "judy" <judyewc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 05 January, 2011 8:38 AM
Subject: [etni] Oz Latmura: the Prequel
> Doesn't anyone remember the first Oz Latmura? It was tried in some 20
> schools. Part of the project involved renovation - expanding the
> teachers'
> room, giving teachers desks (OK, three of us shared a desk), seeing that
> they had a proper place to make coffee and buy a sandwich, etc. This is
> probably why, after several successful years, the project was stopped.
> The
> Ministry said that they did not have the budget to continue it.
> Basically the Ministry wants now to get the same returns without making
> the
> investment, and the Irgun is happily collaborating. Do not be fooled -
> this
> is just another project - try it out, see how it runs, then look for some
> other item in the education supermarket.
>
> The problem is not which new idea to try, whether or not to have Oz,
> Schmoz,
> Hots or Trots. The problem is the whole system in which as a teacher you
> are nobody - a little worker on the education assembly line, with new
> projects, programs, subjects, methods, theories, foci (mikud?), grading
> schedules, directives, classroom innovations, ideas - did I say
> projects? -
> dropped on you, as if you were eating your humble teacher's pie outside
> under a flock of pigeons. This would be annoying, confusing,
> disconcerting,
> time-consuming, insulting, belittling, even humiliating, even if you were
> handsomely rewarded for these efforts. When the pay is not commensurate,
> all the above are capitalized, bolded and underlined.
>
> Why do teachers put up with it?
>
> Excuse my mixed metaphors.
>
> Judy
>
> --
> "Music will save the world." Pablo Casals
>
>
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