[etni] Fw: re: core and log
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- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:25:24 +0200
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From: Mitzi Geffen - mitzi1002001@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: core and log
The log is 100% the teacher's choice - as long as it meets with the
inspector's approval. The assessment rubric is out in the open and can be
signed by students and parents ( and principals!) before you get started. I
think some of the arguments can be avoided if you give a grade as you
complete each unit ( worth a pre-determined part of the total grade) , and
not just at the end.
Admittedly, there are a lot of kinks to be worked out, but I actually like
the idea that one bagrut grade is actually based on work the student does in
school, and not on a one-shot test.
Mitzi
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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