[etni] [FWD: Module E results]
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Subject: Module E results
From: "Joan Orkin" <joano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Teachers,
I just want to add my voice to the concern so many of us are feeling
about
the Modular results.
To be fair to the ministry the only way we can learn what is expected
of us
in terms of the new modular bagrut is by way of exam experience. This
will
take us some time to acquire, but it seems a dreadful shame that the
first
batch of students writing in the new system have to be the ones who
suffer
for, perhaps, our inexperience. Their results are very important to
them and
the students who wrote the modular bagrut this year seem to have drawn
the
short straw.
I must respectfully voice my objection to the refusal of the markers
and the
ministry to accept "sentimental" as well as "humorous."
The wrong choice here cost students 12 marks. At a recent meeting in
Haifa
teachers were united in their ondemnation of this. The piece on wooden
pencils was nostalgic and because of this a sentimental tone was the
choice
of many English teachers. If this uncertainty existed amongst teachers
surely students should not be expected to find clarity.
How are we to explain this drop in grades to our students and their
parents?
How are we to explain it to ourselves?
Joan Orkin.
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