[etni] Fw: re: AD's

From: "Ask_Etni" <ask@xxxxxxxx>
To: "ETNI" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:57:06 +0300
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From: "Marlene" <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: AD's


Just saw the first program of a series on attention deficits on TV channel 2
(22). So lots of people have trouble concentrating in today's modern world.
An interesting experiment had half the pupils go swimming and the other half
play on the computer and afterwards concentrate on a story - the swimmers
did far better. Also, families who chucked their TV's - saw marked
improvement in their kids' scholastic scores.

Pupils with reading difficulties in primary school need personal attention -
if not one on one, then in small groups. We have to demand that the Ministry
allocate  teachers to teach English reading to those pupils with
difficulties , just like the pupils who have difficulties in math and Hebrew
get special help. Isn't English a core subject? (Or I should say, why isn't
English considered a core subject!) It seems that the problem that starts in
elementary school (mainstreaming) just gets delayed to JHS and then to High
School and even College prep.!
Marlene


Jennifer wrote:
> 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.



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