[etni] Re: HOTs courses
- From: Veronica Foldes <verfol@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Ziona Levi <z_levi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:18:20 +0300
Ziona, you misunderstand! I DO teach projects AND my schools have had
students preparing portfolios in literature even before it became a part of
the curriculum. We test them orally and in writing and they do varied
assignments. What I protest is going back to the kind of bagrut that does
not allow the students to analyze and be creative, not necessarily according
to HOTs. If one's class is to do the written F exam,the teachers will have
to limit themselves to specific pieces of literature, unlike today where a
teacher can suit literature choices to different classes and change the
choices from year to year. If the teacher chooses to do the log, it too
becomes less interesting and more time-consuming than what we do today. I
want us to go forward and not backward. I do not want to be teaching even
more topics that students have not yet dealt with in their first language,
as I now do when I teach students how to write a project, what plagiarism is
etc.I do not know what you are referring to when you ask if I want to teach
my students to lie??? But again, I am not discussing the advantages
/disadvantages of the new program. I am discussing the fact that yet again,
English teachers are being asked to take on even more work, with no
compensation. I am stating clearly that if we do not all stand together and
refuse to start the new program without financial compensation, we have no
right to complain that we are overworked and undercompensated. I hope that
clears things up.
All the best,
Veronica
2009/7/7 Ziona Levi <z_levi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> How can you instigate such a plan? Don't you see the value of teaching
> projects and oral tests? What about them? Are you teaching your students to
> lie?
> And why not ban other 'unimportant' time consuming demands ? Let's ban
> extensive reading or writing? Why not? Because it is on the written Bagrut?
> ?
> Tziona.
> ----- ×?×?×?×¢×? ×?ק×?ר×?ת -----
> ×?×?ת: Veronica Foldes <verfol@xxxxxxxxx>
> ת×?ר×?×?: ×?×?×? ×?', ×?×?×?×? 3, 2009 16:54
> × ×?ש×?: [etni] HOTs courses
> ×?×?: bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Good evening to Bari and everyone,
> > Yes, there are teachers who have already taken the course.
> > However, if we
> > ALL refuse to teach the new program, then it can not go on. We are
> > living in
> > a small country. The universities etc will take into account that NO
> > students are taking the new F. The students will not suffer if we
> > all stick
> > together. (BTW, what many teachers did with the projects was to
> > tell their
> > students to get hold of a project and to be prepared for the exam.
> > Theythemselves did not work on the projects. It can be done, if we
> > sticktogether.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Veronica
> >
> >
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