[etni] Re: Attention Deficits and optimizing learning
- From: "Nira Artzy" <arnira@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:20:24 +0300 (שעון קיץ ירושלים)
Nobody would object to taking pupils to the local swimming pool for a few
hours per week and I'm sure longer breaks and more phys. Ed. Would be very
beneficial for ADHD pupils. However, I agree with what Steph Wertheimer says
Yediot today. He claims 50% of our students do not have the abilities and/or
skills to pass the Bagrut and inevitably fail. They should be taught a
profession that is required in industry.
Wertheimer has been saying that for years, but technological education is
much more expensive than academic schools, and the MOE closed these schools
to save money. The result is that 50% of the kids are forced into the Bagrut
straight jacket, feel frustrated and bitter, disrupt the academic lessons in
which they cannot concentrate and are absent most days. They leave high
school with nothing. In the best scenario they are taught a profession in
the army. If not, the country loses them: they join the ever-increasing
unemployed youths, find illegal means to earn money or leave the country to
find their fortune abroad.
Since privatization is this government's god, I think the solution could
come from the industry. If prosperous factories open alternative
schools/courses for required professions, without demanding a Bagrut
certificate, these "failing" pupils may be very successful.
Nira
-------Original Message-------
From: David R. Herz
Date: 15/08/2009 22:45:23
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [etni] Attention Deficits and optimizing learning
I caught Marlene's recent comment about a show on Channel 22. It brings up
a very good point. Perhaps we should be looking at the whole system to see
what we can do to meet our goals for our students, whatever those may be.
There might be some very low cost practices that allow our students to focus
more and better or to find their own motivation for things or that would
inspire them to attain goals that most of us wouldn't expect our students to
aspire to.
I said this around the HOTS debate and I say it again now. It's worth
looking at our goals and practices, and using the available research to
bring our practices into accord with what we want in the most efficient
manner possible. Maybe other things - like swimming - affect what we want
to encourage - like HOTS.
Should jumping jacks or five minutes of silent reading or lessons in manners
and etiquette or chewing gum in class help students in the areas we or they
want to improve, we should be shown the research and given the freedom to
implement these things.
Yours truly,
David R. Herz
drherz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.educatingisrael.com
Bet Rimon
052-579-1859
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