[etni] Re: Taking the HOTS course
- From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:16:23 +0300
this is a good part of why we are having the meeting with Nurit
Valensi on July 7th.
And if any irgun member wants to come to the meeting (Q&A) and doesn't
know when and where the it is, please email me. i don't want to sound
like a broken record...
sara g
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Louise -<lu_mmm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear All,
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> Earlier this year, I took the HOTS course. It was an on-line course with only
> 2 face to face meetings. I decided to enroll as I wanted to understand better
> the issues that related to this course. Why is it so much work? What will we
> be required to do? Why should we have sanctions against it? I wanted
> first-hand information. I also felt that this is a course I am taking on my
> own time, which I paid for (small amount), and I was in the mood. I said to
> myself, that learning about it doesnt necessarily mean I have to teach it, in
> the event of further sanctions coming in the future. These were my
> justifications.
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> Well, all I can say is I am glad I took the course. Leaving aside my own
> feelings about Israeli students being introduced to HOTS in L2 and still
> trying to resolve whether there is merit to this approach (as laid out by the
> MOE), by taking the course you will know exactly what you are up against.
> Therefore, you will be in a better position to argue for or against it.
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> For myself, it was bloody hard work preparing a lesson plan following the
> required format and trying to recreate the very high standards set by our
> instructor. Of course, all newly learned things take longer to implement, and
> this we were reminded of periodically. So 3/4 of the way through, many of us
> thought we would just send the kids to the exam and not do the log which
> would require even more hours of work to correct. Then the bombshell hit --
> regardless of whether or not the students take the exam, they should (or
> must) do a log. When you take the course, you will see what that entails. All
> I can say, is that on the last day of the course, (a face to face) our
> instructor brought in a few sample logs, which seemed to be about 3x the
> thickness of a project.
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> Therefore, given the above, I do suggest that at least one person from your
> school take the course in order to better judge what this program entails.
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> Interestingly and by the way, we brought up the Literature course to our
> Union rep, but she didnt seem to know much about it. She said she would get
> back to us but as far as I know, she never did. It makes me wonder why we do
> not have a designated and dedicated English representative in the Irgun
> organization who can better represent our issues.
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> Louise Lipert Maery
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