[etni] Re: Fw: re: Back to basics
- From: Michele Ben <mggben@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 17:21:18 +0300
I don't get it. If we do away with the school grade in high school, why
should kids bother going to school or attending class? Why not just set up
bagrut centers where kids go to take their tests? As it is there is much
too much emphasis on standardized testing in our school system. The best
thing would be to require a school evaluation to get in to university so
schools would be able to focus on educating and not testing. Then we
could do away with all the testing. That idea, obviously, is a pipe dream
in our reality. So what exactly would doing away with the school grade
accomplish?
Michele
20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ask_Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: LindaKM - lindakm09@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Back to basics
>
> I am so relieved to see so many teachers who agree that the "tziun shnati"
> should be done away with. What can be done to bring about its demise??? I
> am
> serious!
> Hoping to get ideas that can be implemented...
> Linda Kuras Mizrahi
>
>
> Batya wrote:
> > It's gratifying to hear that other esteemed colleagues are also calling
> > for
> a back to basics approach in teaching EFL, especially because we are not
> fooled by relatively higher marks on the modular Bagrut exams than were
> achieved in 'the good old days' when students were better tested on their
> ability in English.
> > However, we teachers have a luxury that the MOE can't afford: while we
> can
> be concerned about the alarming downward trend in EFL proficiency and try
> to
> somehow stem the tide, the MOE has to show results -- and fast! So ...
> enter the modular system, in which a student may retake the exam until he
> can shove a score under his teacher's nose and bemoan that he got more than
> the teacher gave.
> > (We're hoping the MOE will realize that it's best to do away with the
> farcical tziuneh shnati -- or at least tell us outright that every student
> should receive a minimum bonus of X number of points. How's that for
> standardization?!)
> > Theoretically, we should be able to affect a change -- a return to basics
> first and foremost (before other demands are made on our time), but it
> seems
> that only a quick fix, put on a bandage approach is popular these days.
> > It would be so refreshing to have hishtalmut courses on how to
> effectively
> deal with the current phenomenon, but that would require an admission that
> all is not well -- and in one way or another, the ever-convenient scapegoat
> (hint: the word rhymes with 'creature')would have to absorb the blame!
> > If anyone has positive ideas about how we can truly reverse the sorry
> > trend
> (within the confines of our limited teaching time), let's discuss them!
>
>
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