----- Original Message ----- From: Linda - lsk120@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: poll suggestion: old bagrut vs. modulesI'm not saying the students don't learn anything. However, in order to do the projects according to Bagrut regulations, if you will, we would need to fit into our already extremely overloaded workload, the time to teach them how to take articles and summarize them, using their own words.. which, I think, is unrealistic, especially since they have no clue as to how to do that in Hebrew! I am for something on a much lighter basis, that could be fun and rewording for the students, where they would research and learn about a topic of interest. The important accomplishment would be that they not only read and understood articles written in authentic English, but they broadened their horizons as well. Short, sweet and simple!
Linda Kuras Mizrahi Carmen wrote:
As far as I know, a language is a verbal means of communication, most of my
teaching is spent on developing verbal skills, such as idiomatic expressions, having discussions, pronunciation and even (I know this is a no no) asking the students to learn expressions by heart!! Therefore, I suggest we keep the oral bagrut, however unfair and subjective it is, after all a live language isn't based on unseens with incredibly tricky questions which don't test communicative skills, but rather how much a student can get into the thoughts of the writer of the exam. I have made a survey of how the students feel about the projects and they all said they learned something from them, even the fact that they took it from the internet actually helped them to read and summarize. Shabbat Shalom ----------------------------------------------- Issue #2 of The Rag is now online!!! http://www.etni.org/etnirag/ Add yourself / Update your entry to "Who's Who on Etni" http://www.boker.org.il/etni/whoswho.htm -----------------------------------------------