[etni] Re: the modular Bagrut books in Junior High
- From: Greif <mgreif@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ETNI <ask@xxxxxxxx>, ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:48:00 +0200
Dear coleagues,
In answer to Adele and Jennifer.
This time I am going to represent the Ministry. I have been a counselor
for about 15 years. I have visited many, many schools in all the sectors
and have worked with teachers teaching pupils at all levels from 7th grade
to 12th grade. It goes without saying that I have also visited many
classes.
Over the years, my battle has been to get the teachers to use a coursebooks
and not the Unseen Bagrut practice books (which are cheap and seem
practical). These practice books do NOT prepare the pupils for bagrut
because there is NO repetition of vocabulary (not to mention how boring they
are...). The grammar books, which are out of context, hardly do their job
either because most pupils do not know how to transfer what they learn
there to the "real thing" which is writing a composition.
On the other hand, the publishers have come up with wonderful coursebooks
written for every possible age level and at every possible level of English
suitable for most pupils. These are the books approved by the Ministry for
use in the classroom.
There is NO reason to even mention the word bagrut in Junior High School.
That is where the pupils should be learning English (not practicing
unseens...). If they know English, it will be no problem for them to learn
the technique of the exam at a later stage.
I believe that I can safely say that I represent most of the counselors sent
out there from the Ministry. (Can't blame the Ministry for everything
every time...)
Best wishes,
Miriam Greif
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From: "Adele P. Raemer " <raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:02 PM
To: <etni.list@xxxxxxxxx>; "'Etni'" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [etni] Re: Fwd: the modular Bagrut exam
> Dear Jennifer,
>
> You wrote: " 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 only "battle" that needs to be fought here is the battle to get
> teachers
> (and school administrators) to follow the guidelines and instructions that
> are set by the ministry which say that they should ONLY teach using
> textbooks which have been APPROVED by the ministry! Had the teacher of
> this
> student followed those guidelines, your student would be learning from one
> of the very many appropriate textbooks that our publishers produce.
>
> Adele
>
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