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From: Vera and Yacov Lachmanovich - lachmanovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: magen grade
First of all it is ziun shnati!!!! and not zium magen!!!
Second, whatever you say is correct if your student is lazy, skips classes
and knows some English. It is not true for those very hard working students
who may have problems with unseens but get relatively high grades on tests
where they are tested on learnt material like literature for example. In
addition will these students get a high grade on attitude to their studies,
(jachas), homework assignments and probably a bonus for attendance. In their
case the ziun shnati will help them pass. But also in this case their will
be a big gap between the two grades (but at least they won't complain.)
Bye Vera
Mordechai wrote:
I am surprised that so little is being said about the sad issue
of the "magen grades" in English.
English is the only subject in which the students are not examined in the Bagrut Exams on what they are taught by their teachers.
Dr.Judy Steiner sent out letters to the school principals in which
she informs both them and their teachers how they are supposed to
calculate their school grades. This letter states that the weight of
literature is 30% of the grades for Module E and F …
This means that students will get on their Bagrut Exams much higher
grades than they will get from their teachers as school grades (magen)
This means that instead of helping our students get high grades in English, we are lowering their final grades in English.
This means that an "external student" has better chances of getting better grades because he will be assessed only according to his performance on the Bagrut Exam.
This means that any students with a grain of brain will understand that he is better off without a "Ziun Shnati" Or "Ziun Magen" because by definition these grades have to be lower than what he will get in the exams.
This means that it is advisable for a students to sit for external exams which means less jobs for us as English Teachers.
But we are sitting idle or post messages to Etni rather than raise our voices in protest to whoever can change this.
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