[etni] Re: Fwd: re: special considerations Students?
- From: Avi Tsur <tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:29:47 +0200
"Hatamot" and not "Hakalot"
Take care and all the best,
Avi
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:43:28 -0500
> Subject: [etni] Fwd: re: special considerations Students?
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> From: rachelli <green_p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [etni] Fwd: special considerations Students?
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> 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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