[etni] Fw: re: changes in LD guidelines ..

From: "Ask" <ask@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Etni" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:59:06 +0200
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From: Sarah Maoz - srmaoz@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: changes in LD guidelines ..

Hi Aviva,
I agree with everything you said!  It is time the ENGLISH TEACHERS stood up 
and said NO to the many changes being done without consulting us.  Please 
send your letter to Judy Steiner ....I am planning sending her my own letter 
about the enormous amount of work English teachers do (as compared with 
other subjects who don't have to prepare cassettes, do projects, book 
reports, oral testing, etc, etc.  Also the amount of money being wasted on 
the seven modules in English and Maths, the extra paperwork that goes with 
it, the extra invigilators, extra graders, and the extra Winter and Moed Bet 
(!) is scandalous when supposedly there is no money to put into "real" 
educational reform - like paying teachers what they deserve, reducing class 
numbers, bringing back hours, ertc, etc!
Sarah


Aviva wrote:
>This morning I read over all the new updates on anglit.net and...

>The new LD guidelines have upset me. .. Sorry to disagree with you Nira
but, there are some kids who actually need both listening to a tape and
recording their answers and they have an extremely diffiicult time
functioning with two tape recorders (what is a tape recorder??) Maybe it's
a pain in the neck for the teachers but if the kids who need it don't get it
, they are being hurt and penalized unfairly. I would like to know if the
neutral tester has been abolished in the Hebrew tests. Does anyone know ??
If not, then in my opinion it is not fair that only in English the new
accommodation, which was implemented ONLY last spring should suddenly be
abandoned. It is not clear to me why it was changed so soon after it was
implemented and as a professional I would like to understand why changes are
made one day and then canceled the next. This confuses not only the
teachers but the pupils.

>As for the new letter for the Oral exam (for requesting an Oral exam) , 
>this
is definitely an improvement. But still in these troubled days of a strike I
find it hard to fathom yet another change . If the Winter bagrut is
canceled then my students who had neutral readers last Spring and who were
to complete their last module this winter will suffer and are being doubly
punished.

>If a change has to be made (and I would like to know why) then it should be
implemented only for those students who were not given permission to get it
for the last exam.

>Change is inevitable, but every year.. ??


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