[etni] Re: etni Digest V3 #56
- From: Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: livne690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:33:45 +0200
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How do you do the oral presentation when the kids do projects
individually? It must take forever!
Bari
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:48:22 +0200, Dena Livne
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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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