[etni] Re: Fwd: "Model Behavior" by Limor Gal, Ha'aretz
- From: Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "etni.list@xxxxxxxxx" <etni.list@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:43:47 +0200
As a teacher, I do not expect my students' parents to go over their
work before it is handed in. It's my job as a teacher to make sure my
students know what is expected of them and to make them redo work that
is sub-standard. As a parent, I have always hated doing school
projects with my children. I don't mind checking their work if they
ask me to, but I don't want to do it with (or for) them, nor do I
believe that I should have to. I don't think teachers at any level
should assign work that the students cannot do on their own.
When my daughter was in second grade, she was asked to build a model
of Noah's ark. She built it out of a shoebox and did all of the work
on her own. I thought it was nice work, considering the fact that she
was seven. Her teacher, however, was not satisfied with it and I
couldn't understand why until I went to parents' night and saw the
other models, which had clearly not been built by seven-year-olds.
Bari
On Friday, October 8, 2010, ETNI list <etni.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: laurie ornstein <laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: "Model Behavior" by Limor Gal, Ha'aretz
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> This article looks at the parental side of the coin when teachers
> assign projects, English and otherwise.
>
> "Stop the forced labor for parents immediately! Enough!" Yael, a
> mother of three from the Sharon region, wrote. "When my eldest
> daughter was in fifth grade she had to keep a reading journal, in
> English, for a high-school-level book. The parents had to work with
> the children or hire a private tutor," Yael relates. The situation
> reached a level of absurdity when some fifth-graders in her
> neighborhood asked their parents for money and hired a graphic artist
> to prepare a slide presentation they were assigned to create but
> didn't know how.
>
> To read the entire article go to
>
> http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/model-behavior-1.317806
>
> Laurie
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