[etni] Fw: re: Achmed's suggested shift in reform ownership

From: "Ask_Etni" <ask@xxxxxxxx>
To: "ETNI" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:38:04 +0200
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From: "Marlene" <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Achmed's suggested shift in reform ownership


There's a private company teaching the weaker students at my school - what
used to be called 3 points and now is module A or B. The method is to teach
exam techniques. Find the answer in the text and copy it according to the
appropriate WH question. No comprehension necessary, or at least minimal
understanding of the question. Spelling is ignored, as most students have
"hakalot" dispensations, so grammar is inessential. Unseens and texts - how
boring. Is that how we should be teaching the lower levels?! No wonder they
hate English. At least in JHS, we can give them more useful English - a bit
of speaking, some stories, vocabulary. Have them use the language, make
sentences. Grammar is so unimportant - just the basics - so you can
communicate.
Bagrut has become an industry in this country. I grew up in a state
(Florida) where there were no matriculation exams. My husband likes to say
that I have an M.A. without bagrut. Students there graduated and went on to
university based on grades, recommendations and also SAT scores (like
psychometric exams).
Thanks to the rain my classes' pre-Hanukah class trip was cancelled, so back
to marking exams or turning in.
Good night!
Marlene


Esther wrote;
> I found the below suggestion interesting as I am American by birth. Unlike
> smaller countries, each state in the USA as well as many school districts
> within any given state are given by law great leeway in the educational
> affairs of their school district. This leeway includes topics as
> controversial as whether or not to teach Creation as we have in the Bible
> along with Darwinism.
> Sadly as we are in a small country whose MOE cares not a whit (or so we
> feel) for the "worker bees" (plebeians; slaves; call us what you will,)
> his
> idea will remain a utopian wish gathering cobwebs somewhere. For he is
> entirely right when he writes:
> "Reforms have good chances of success when teachers, schools and district
> personnel adopt and implement the principles of a reform that they
> understand, believe in and own."


 Ahmad wrote:
>Do you agree with the following? Do you feel you own the HOTS reform?
>Shift in Reform Ownership
>>Conditions should be created to shift authority and knowledge of the
>>reform
>>from the reform initiators to teachers, schools and districts. The reform
>>ultimate goal is to benefit students in the classroom in terms of learning
>>and motivation. Teachers and schools that do not relate to a reform as
>>theirs may tend to choose not to apply the reform or implement it in terms
>>of materials and tasks instead of applying the underlying assumptions of
>>the reform. When reform ownership is shifted to school and district
>>personnel, the decisions about what aspects of the reform to emphasize or
>>adapt no longer lie with the external reform organization. Reforms have
>>good chances of success when teachers, schools and district personnel
>>adopt
>>and implement the principles of a reform that they understand, believe in
>>and own.


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