[etni] Re: etni Digest V3 #56

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Bari,
I read  your comments on the "process" of the project and couldn't help but 
smile (although crying might have been more to the point) at the familiarity 
your woes.  The saddest/funniest part is that really, everything you wrote 
about are things that we all know happen, and happen all the time.  It's 
hard enough to cope with in "normal" planned lessons, when half the kids 
from one class or another are absent.  But with we are working with a 
project - these problems are ...well, let's say even more annoying...and 
they make the work extremely difficult.  Our school, Haddassim, has actually 
been doing projects for years.  We were part of a pilot programme that the 
Ministry funded to see if projects "worked".  At the end of our three year 
pilot, we explained that, in our humble opinion, they worked only in 
relatively small classes (25 or less) and with extra hours given (for which 
we would be paid) so that groups could make up work.  Needless to say, our 
comments were simply ignored.  So, today we find ourselves in classes of 40 
students, with no extra lessons, trying to do the impossible.
Having said all the above, I have to tell you that in our 12th grade 5 point 
classes this year we did our second project, but it was NOT in groups, but 
rather each student worked individually.  This meant hours more of marking, 
but the class work was easier for obvious reasons.  So, is this a solution? 
Who knows.
Dena 

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