[etni] Fwd: the modular Bagrut exam
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From: byk <byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: the modular Bagrut exam
Ester Revivo, whose letters I always appreciate, mentioned that, now
that some of the HOTS issues might be resolved, she hopes "we can all
get back to doing what we love ...teaching.
However, there is another extremely important pedagogical issue which
needs to be addressed, and that is the modular Bagrut exam. Because
of it, more and more teaching is 'teach to the test'. Yesterday I was
shocked to discover that one of the set books of a 9th grade student
in Givataim is an Unseens for module 'c'.
These unseens are testing texts, which leap around in a disorganized
fashion, without covering basic language learning tools which the
students then sadly lack.
The techniques for answering the questions of unseens at the bagrut
level, are, moreover, overflowing into the lower classes, even into
the elementary school level.
After fighting the HOTS programmme, it might seem unfair to ask the
teachers to get into another fight, but it is, in fact, all part of
the same fight; the 'guiding lights' at the Ministry, seem to have
lost their way, and they seem to have been wanding around in the
darkness for some time. It seems that only the hard-working and
knowledgeable English teachers in the field can bring things back to
the way they should be, with sound pedagogical guidelines in force.
Jennifer Byk
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