Teachers angry over matriculation reform: "Does not create real change"

Following the announcement by the Minister of Education, many teachers expressed concern about harm to the humanities, worsening conditions and difficulty in accompanying students in submitting research papers.

As a result, social networks were flooded with stinging reactions and a public discharge of frustration.

"So happy to be a teacher of one of the Ethmol professions"

Uri Sela

26/04/2022

Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 23:04 Updated: 23:34

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In the video: The Minister of Education presents the matriculation reform (Photo: GPO)

The matriculation reform launched today (Tuesday) by the Ministry of Education has provoked resentment among teachers.

Among other things, they expressed concern about harm to the humanities, worsening conditions and difficulty in accompanying students in submitting the research papers, and argued that explanations about the expected changes are cumbersome even for those who will implement them.

Social networks were flooded with stinging reactions and a public discharge of frustration.

The Facebook page "From the days of teachers" mocked the reform in a series of posts he posted.

"I am so happy to be a teacher of one of the Ethmol subjects," read one of them, as a joke about the Ministry of Education's pride in "strengthening" the Mahar subjects - social sciences and humanities - as part of the new program.

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In another post, a screenshot appeared from the pages explaining the reform, in which it was written about the concluding work that students will write in history, literature, citizenship and the Bible that "the question of the work will examine each of the four disciplines These include: lip literacy, critical thinking, creative thinking, digital literacy, information literacy, self-efficacy, group involvement and presentation ability.

The work will be accompanied by all four teachers of the disciplines, with each teacher accompanying his chapter of his discourse.

The work process of all four teachers will include a teacher who will be defined as 'leading tomorrow'. Each student, individually, will write a concluding chapter for the work, expressing his position in light of the sources from which he studied. " This genius text. "

Teachers did not miss the opportunity to sting in the responses.

"I want what he takes (for hours of stay of course)," one teacher wrote, and another mentioned that "April 1st was already over."

Other teachers responded, "This 'leads tomorrow' is that when the student asks for help they will tell him to come tomorrow" and "this man has probably never met a teacher. Or a student. Or someone outside his office in Jerusalem," and criticized the decision to replace the external exams with jobs. May open black market "of copies:" Translation: Each student will submit a PowerPoint slide written by David Bold size 72 and a Google background in which he will copy a random paragraph from Wikipedia with a concluding sentence in red - 'We think global warming is bad' "

"If there is already reform, do to the end."

Yifat Shasha-Bitton (Photo: Official Website, Udi Portal)

On the other hand, there were teachers who expressed a more complex opinion, and many of them made it clear that they did not oppose the purpose of the Ministry of Education's move.

"I'm very skeptical, I do not believe that it will be implemented and if it is implemented by mistake, it will probably come out in a hurry and in a bad way. At the same time - I support the general idea (canceling matriculation and writing papers)," explained one of them.

"The main problem with it - it does not create a real and comprehensive change, it only creates a lack of prestige and 'discrimination' towards these professions.

The teachers' union clarified with the publication of the details of the reform that its negative position has not changed.

"There are no agreements between the teachers' organization and the Ministry of Education regarding the reform proposed by the Minister of Education regarding matriculation exams in the Ministry of Education, due to opposition from the Ministry of Finance.

The finance ministry's opposition indicates that a thousand witnesses intend to harm the humanities and the teaching public, "they said, threatening to take steps to prevent it from being implemented.

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