[etni] Re: Fw: Heresy - re CDs, MP3s etc
- From: "Nira Artzy" <arnira@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:16:05 +0300 (שעון קיץ ירושלים)
Many of our students in high school don't even use the exam-reading
accommodation - they claim it confuses them and would rather struggle on
their own, helped by the electronic dictionary and the extra time.
You are right about teaching reading in elementary-junior high schools.
However, I have 2 questions about that:
1) Are teachers at universities and colleges instructed in using effective
teaching methods for reading? (I studies at the Hebrew University for my B.A
and teaching certificate 35 years ago. I certainly wasn't taught any
teaching methods. I had to learn on my own, while teaching 7th grade
non-readers. I hope the situation has changed since.)
2) Are the current conditions in over-crowded, undisciplined classes
conducive to effective teaching in how many lessons a week - two or three? I
d really like to hear the opinions of junior-high teachers on this issue.
Nira
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From: Ask Etni
Date: 10/08/2009 15:03:35
To: Etni
Subject: [etni] Fw: Heresy - re CDs, MP3s etc
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From: byk - byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Heresy - re CDs, MP3s etc
With regards to accomodations for LD students, isn't it about time we
started asking why there are so many pupils who need accomodations, and
perhaps, dare I say it, questioning these accomodations? And before you
jump down my throat, my own daughter needed accomadations, and only now, at
the age of 32, this past Shavuot, did she come to me with a newspaper in
English and said "Listen! I can read!" And it still takes her 5 hours to
watch a film by Fellini (Italian), while she stops to read the subtitles.
And I , too, still have great difficulty reading Hebrew, which is why I
never took my teacher's license.
HOWEVER, that said, a great many of the puupils with accomodations wouldn't
need them iif they had been taught to read properly. I know. I teach many
of them. I once had a whole class of 7th grade non-readeers, including one
who couldn't read Hebrew. All were reading beautifully by the end of the
year. They just needed more patience and time. The boy who couldn't read
Hebrew, still needed reading to, but he knew how to read well enough to be
able to follow the text.
I think that it is time to demand that the Ministry intervenes in elementary
school to make sure that the children are being taught to read properly, and
that they can read. Further heresy - I think it is more important than
concentrating on speaking.
Jennifer Byk
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