[etni] Fw: re: No 3 pts?
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:42:27 +0300
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From: "Marlene" <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: No 3 pts?
Remember "Gemer"? After finally making headway with my hakbatza group at
Ort, the vice principal waltzes in and says "Everybody studying in my group
will not be doing 1 "unit" (yechida), but rather gemer." This was after I
had taught them what we now call LOTS, i.e., test strategies or how to
answer unseens without necessarily understanding much of the content. I've
had students at mechina (college preparatory) who have honed their LOTS
skills to obtain high grades in reading comprehension, though without any
real comprehension. And now we're raising the bar even higher. What are the
students' needs? Wouldn't they prefer improving their speaking skills? Are
they all university bound? Or maybe they want to study physical education or
art or Bible studies or Hebrew literature... Why must they pass English - on
the level of authentic literature? What's next - rhetoric?
Marlene
Adi wrote:
> I haven't heard of it, but we must remember that this was the case just a
> few years ago, and that the 1 and 3 allowed for more passing grades, but
> deteriorated the profession further.
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