[etni] Re: re; what laurie said about school grades
- From: "Adele Raemer and Laurie Levy" <raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <alshapirose@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 06:56:31 +0200
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Personally, I LIKE the way we give the grades. I LIKE the fact that a kid
who does not do the work is penalized - otherwise, what are we there for? If
a kid does not do the required work, and we let the parents , system, etc.
know all along what is happening all along, there is no reason why we (and
our schools) should not stand behind a low Tziun Shnati. Let them take the
test a year later as an external student, and be done with it! The fact
that the school grade INCLUDES all of these other things (literature,
projects, participation, etc) is the only way they are going to be exposed
and get some experience with those wider topics (rather than just teaching
for the test, and the ONLY thing that gives us any TEETH! Do you want to go
on eating soup for the rest of your teaching days? I don't!
Adele
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From: "Aviva Shapiro" <alshapirose@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: [etni] re; what laurie said about school grades
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> Actually in response to what Laurie said, we had the opposite problem. Our
> students all got high 'tzione magen' because they did all the work and
> more.
> They submitted 3 projects and did more than the required literature and so
> on... So our grades were not inflated but really reflected what they had
> done in class. Then they fell on the exam itself, (mostly module G of moed
> A) which we hadn't expected BUT we stand behind the grades and did not
> feel
> that we inflated them... What I understand from Laurie is that the grades
> are lower because the kids don't do the required work. This is another
> problem we have .. What I do in these cases is I try not to hurt the
> student
> but my grade doesn't help him..I don't like to think that there are
> schools
> out there not teaching literature and poetry.. or trying to get kids to
> read
> books..
>
> I think that maybe the whole way grades are given needs to be revamped.in
> order to reflect the way we teach them..
> Anyone else feel this way too??? Again ... good luck to all our
> students...on the EXAM Aviva
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