[etni] Fwd: re: special considerations Students?
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From: rachelli <green_p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [etni] Fwd: special considerations Students?
As you have rightly put it , it's not the sts, but their teachers and
the system.
And it's mainly, in my humble opinion, an issue in their mother tongue
, which later " moves" to the second language.
In most primary school kids are'nt taught [ in Hebrew ] to summarize,
to find the main idea in a paragraph or to ask questions about the
text they've read ,or to organise their time,
not to mention that correcting spelling is considered as "interfering
with the development of the child's creativity" - and I'm not
kidding.[My son's first teacher in kita A, who's barely graduated the
seminar quoted this nonsense and was angry when I told her we'd split
responsibilities - she'd teach and correct spelling and I would
develop his creativity . And yes, I did . Her job, as well.
I used to be a primary school principal and I insisted on developing
and practising those basic skills as benchmarks in all the Hebrew
subjects in the early classes.
Both the teachers and the inspector hated my attitude,
and it wasn't that easy to convince them working / teaching my way .
Only when we had the lowest numbers of kids with learning difficulties
in the city and passed the official tests with flying colors , they
started to understand the what's and why's.
And then i retired and moved on to teach in high school and
privately. The first thing I do with kids having hakalot is teach them
those skills and - surprise !! they do much much better in most
cases, of course. [I'm not talking about dislexia , for example ].
Take care and smile because WE ALL SMILE IN THE SAME LANGUAGE.
Rachelli
Daniel wrote:
> A friend who recently entered the profession asked me a question which
> I admit has been puzzling me for a long time. "Why is it that so many
> students have special considerations in our schools, " he asked
> innocently. He meant akalot, ivchunim and other great words to
> describe how a student is exempt from writing, spelling, reading or
> requires other special considerations. Why is that the case? Does
> anybody know why we have so many students (and the number appears to
> be growing) who cannot read, write or spell in English and why this is
> considered acceptable or normal? Is there something we can do to
> reverse the trend of illiterate students? I agree spelling in English
> is difficult but am supposed to ignore the fact a grade 12 student
> cannot spell the following words: really, because, anywhere, believe
> and other basic words?
>
> It seems to me that when a large number of Israeli students cannot
> read, write or spell correctly the problem is not the student but
> rests with his teachers. I teach high school not elementary school. I
> was taught to spell in Elementary school. I was taught to read, write
> and spell in English, French and Hebrew. I admit my Hebrew is not
> perfect but it is understood. I learned how to write and spell in
> ulpan also.
>
> In summary why is our education system failing these students, some of
> whom ironically are English speakers?
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