[etni] Fw: re: core and log
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- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:02:59 +0200
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From: "sara g" <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: core and log
Could someone who is in the course, or who knows, please post what is
meant by the "core" program and what else there is in the literature
program? I looked on anglit.net (the new address, of course, but this
is easier to type) and couldn't find a list of the pieces for the
program.
tia,
sara g
Sharon wrote:
> Aviva S wrote me that if you do the log, you choose ALL the literature.
> That
> had been my understanding, but I believe that my Racezet said that even
> people doing the log must do the core program. I'll be happy if I
> misunderstood. Nevertheless, the people who DO choose the test option
> should
> still have more choice - especially regarding the long piece - and the
> core
> program should be less depressing and not pieces that some of us taught
> for
> many years.
>
> As for the log option - in our school we have had a lot of bitter
> experience
> with alternative assessment. When the students' projects, literature
> grades
> and book reports add points to their grade, everyone is happy. However,
> heaven forbid that the school grade should be lower than the students'
> test
> average (as a result of a low project grade, missing book reports, etc.)
> even by a few points (let alone by a full grade or more ). In those cases,
> we often find ourselves under unbelievable pressure. The students are
> angry
> at as, we get letters of complaint from parents (sometimes on lawyer
> letterhead) saying how we are ruining their children's lives, etc. etc.
> And
> this is all despite the fact that we send out a letter to the parents when
> their child begins 10th grade explaining the grading policy.
>
> Just the other day, I go a mail concerning a student to whom I had
> mercifully given a passing grade for a very shoddy project which she had
> submitted way past the deadline. The student complained about the "gap"
> between her school grade and her test average (about 8 points), and the
> principal pointed out this fact in an email to me and added, "and this
> isn't
> the first time this has happened." In general, our principal is extremely
> supportive, but it seems that every year, he has to be gently reminded
> that
> in English, the test average accounts for only 70% of the school grade in
> English. I shudder to think what will happen when the grade we give based
> on
> a log is not just part of a school grade but the Bagrut grade itself!!
>
> In short, we have good reasons to pass up the log option and opt for the
> test option, which is why I'm so concerned about the core program.
>
> I will write to Judy Steiner, but I wanted to get some feedback from
> Etniers
> first.
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