This is what the chairman of Kadima, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni suggests at the conference, putting education at the top of "Everything Education" and Tel Aviv University * Labor chairman Ehud Barak called for an increase in teacher's wages so that the best go to teaching * Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu presented the conclusions produced in countries that managed to raise the level of education, including Finland and Singapore
Photo: Avi Blizovsky
The education system must improve. At least that's what the three candidates for the position of Prime Minister promise in the elections that will be held in two weeks, on February 10. All three candidates for Prime Minister participated tonight (Monday) (in order of appearance) Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu.
All the candidates connected in some way between the economic crisis and education, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Kadima Livni had an idea according to which it would be useful to take advantage of the mobility of workers to bring good forces to teaching, from among those who were expelled from high-tech or among outstanding young graduates who suddenly cannot find a job in high-tech: Instruction can be a solution to the mobility of workers in the economy, certainly at the immediate level. However, in the same breath, she emphasizes that "even if teaching is a mission, she should still have a proper salary at the end of the month, the respect of the student to the teacher, of the teacher to the schools, must be restored."
Livni also referred to the vocational and technological education that disappeared, and she accepts that by doing so, the state causes the inability of many graduates to integrate into work. "Why don't we bring back professional and technological education. What we see today, I speak in every forum in the world about the importance of Israeli high-tech and sending agricultural technologies to industries in Africa, even in our magnificent defense industries rely on capabilities created in technological education in the past."
Livni referred at length to the need to restore the core studies in the schools that were canceled due to a law that was passed by stealth in the current Knesset. "The sense of belonging and the affinity of the generation that grew up here to the sense of belonging, to the common vision. We find two children from the same street who study in different schools that a distance of meters becomes a gap in completely different worlds of content. State education, state religious, ultra-orthodox and Arab education are only part of what is happening in the State of Israel. Strengthening the affinity and connection to Zionism, to the existence of the State of Israel as a national home, to the existence of the State of Israel and its values as a Jewish and democratic state Not a matter of religion and not a monopoly of an ultra-orthodox party in the Knesset at that moment, but something that belongs to an entire nation. Equality is not a favor we do to the minorities but part of our values.
Every child has the right to learn math, English and citizenship. Core studies is not just a theoretical thing but a right of every child and a duty of the government to do in schools. I usually try not to commit myself, but on this issue I commit to canceling the law taught in special schools that was passed in the current Knesset and that the Minister of Education in my government will not be a member of a sectoral party.
Barak: Education is the most effective tool for a model society
Ehud Barak also addressed the same issues, in a different way: "On the way to a model society, there is no more effective tool than education. From kindergarten to university. The real challenge is not in formulating plans. But when you translate the plan into actions."
"We cannot afford to stop excellence. We must not stop any talent. Hershko and Cchanover and the leading scientists are few, but they are a necessary condition to make Israel a model state. But then - we must not lose a single child, because these children who fall along the way join the welfare system .
Barak also commented on teachers' salaries: "There is no chance of attracting good minds to teaching if, on the whole, the teaching profession does not make it possible to support a family with dignity. In all the leading countries, teachers' salaries are not only significantly higher than the salary in Israel. Besides the salary, the size of the classes and infrastructure - from air conditioning to laboratories - are very influential Also about the ability of the students, but that's not where the answer lies in full either."
"We must increase the independence of the schools and their freedom of action to compete with the schools with balancing mechanisms that a government can introduce into such competition. Independent administrators who can promote the schools and give parents the feeling that there is a result for concentrating on a good school. In the modern world, a world of knowledge that those who study today know that he will have to work 4-5 careers in the future, we need an education system capable of adapting the students to this life."
Netanyahu: Return Israel to the top ten
The head of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, the third candidate who spoke at the conference, said that in the sixties we were in the top ten in every index tested, today we are approaching the fifth ten of the countries. Iran far surpassed us in areas such as mathematics.
After that, Netanyahu devoted most of his speech to analyzing the actions of several countries that have succeeded in greatly promoting education in their field, including Finland and Singapore: "I found that these countries took similar steps that made them successful."
Netanyahu detailed the same five steps:
The first goal is to raise the level of teaching because no education system can be better than the teachers who teach in it. Raising the level of teaching in Israel is acute and it is essential that we address it first. The first thing that the successful countries do to get a better pool of teachers is to reduce the accessibility to the teaching profession. In South Korea or Finland to be admitted to teaching you need to be in the top decile of BA graduates. Even there the salary level is not high compared to others in the OECD countries, they have raised the bar for admission to the profession and thereby make it a prestigious profession. We see a similar phenomenon in the faculties of medicine and the faculties of psychology and most of the doctors and most of the psychologists work in bad conditions and yet the faculties are in demand.
For this narrow beam of candidates they invest enormously in training. Before and after entering the profession. These teachers will replace thousands of teachers who retire every year.
"The second factor for success: the level of management. There is no outstanding school that does not have an excellent principal. Once an excellent principal leaves the school, it is only a matter of time until the school begins to fade. And let principals manage - more powers, more autonomy, more decentralization. No luck will depend on it."
"The third factor of success is treating the weak. These countries treat the weak students in real time. If you wait until the end of the year or until matriculation and see that the boy or girl is not capable, not qualified - they are treated in real time. In Finland, this is a huge investment."
"The fourth factor: these countries focus on the core subjects much more than we do. I'm not talking about the ultra-Orthodox - I'm talking about our state schools. We want the ultra-Orthodox to get the same skills, but here, when we do a comparative analysis of how much we invest in the core subjects - we invest relatively little, Even very little in mathematics, English, science and computer, in these subjects we invest less than others, not to mention history Finland, but the children of Israel who need to know something about their nation's history. The core subjects require a large investment and their focus is one of the components of the excellent countries."
"The fifth and last factor: values. When a child leaves school, they become citizens. Has the child learned things beyond the school system - of self-sufficiency, of excellence, of mistakes."
stop the brain drain
Although in the field of education - from elementary to high school the candidates were ready, in the field of higher education they did not reveal any knowledge and often avoided doing so. The president of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Zvi Galil warned against the collapse of the system and the closing of departments, especially in the field of humanities. "
"In two weeks we will go to the polls to elect a new Knesset and to elect a new government. The current electoral system is being conducted in difficult days, an economic crisis and post-war. Just before we go to the polls, we must ask a number of questions - what has happened to Israeli society in recent years? We, who are in charge of the education system in Israel, need to go back and ask for The soul of the youth of the country, for their education and their well-being. Why should the heads of the universities demand the position of the higher education system, how did it happen That today we have to fight everything that only yesterday seemed natural. Not only the cut in the budgets but also the devaluation of that higher education status is proof that Israel's natural need to be a creative society is no longer a measure of the country's achievements. Recently, the economic crisis, the erosion of research funds and donations that are canceled will burden the research system." His words indicate that this further emphasizes the importance of appropriate government budgeting for the higher education system.
In this context, it is worth noting that all three candidates avoided the identical question stage addressed to them by Amos Shapira, CEO of Cellcom and a member of the association. Livni promised that she would allocate 100 million to return scientists, Barak said that he prefers not to mess with numbers and provide everything necessary to return scientists, while Benjamin Netanyahu proposed to address the state of higher education, in order to attract the best researchers back to Israel.
Shlomo Dover: "A proposal for improved public education"
A long-term visionary course is required under the active leadership of the Prime Minister and with a broad political consensus. Placing education at the top of the national priorities in terms of the budget and in terms of the national agenda. annual. This is stated by Shlomo Dovrat, who chaired a committee to reform the education system about four years ago, which was not implemented due to teachers' opposition. Currently, she is a member of the board of the association "Hachal Chinuq".
Mona's speaker lists a number of fundamental principles that, if we start with them, the education system will move a generation forward: the principles are the strengthening of public education while defining clear criteria for public education and a clear commitment of the state to maintain and finance education; Making the teaching profession a profession of high national priority, proper pay and raising the professional requirements, recruiting the best personnel and significantly improving training, long-term change in the teacher's status and especially in society's attitude; take advantage of the fitness hour to bring in talented young people and people who have been ejected from the high-tech industry, young officers; as well as increasing the common ethos - an all-Israeli core of studies is mandatory in all schools. ("Every child will be educated and understand that he lives in a democratic Jewish state. There is no society that is willing to expand and give up the core of learning anywhere else".) The speaker also demands a differential budget for each student according to socio-economic background with a real and clear preference in all educational resources; Promoting and strengthening the status of managers.
"As soon as the elections are over, we intend to submit a new bill for public education in Israel, preferably through the government, but if not, there are many volunteers from among the members of the Knesset who could submit it," concludes a spokeswoman.
The most moving speech was by Dov Lautman, who due to his illness is already confined to a wheelchair. "We will not let up until we see the Israeli government carry out the change. Everyone agrees that education is an important field that must be engaged in. The problem is in the action. We intend to follow the action and not let go. "The war passes and ends. Education is the issue that will keep the people of Israel at a high level and highly competitive only through education."
"The new reform that they started this year in the education system is a good start, but if there is no unceasing action within this reform, it will be wasted."
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It would have been better if they had taken some small steps as a start:
Turning the wheel back 30 years. Why was the education system in the seventies -
leaving weak students as a class;
reduce parental involvement in the school to the minimum necessary;
Bring back the sister outfits;
restore the status of teachers and their authority;
raising the threshold for admission to teaching studies and at the same time raising teachers' salaries;
Returning teachers (yes teachers - affirmative action) to the education system that is flooded with teachers; return the feed mills;
Bringing back the groupings and the traditional teaching methods that have been proven for centuries, in contrast to the virtual experiments of the academic world, which is sometimes disconnected from what is happening in the schools and has turned the education system into a bed of experiments;
And finally - the psychologists and psychologists and other diagnostic institutes of all kinds are kicked out of the schools, which provide a "challenged" certificate to every student and a "dyslexic" certificate to anyone who needs it.
After we go back 30 years, we can start rebuilding the failed education system, which is bravely providing us with a generation of illiterates...
How will we know that we succeeded - when we see students who manage to write one paper (without buying it) and without spelling errors.
Probably*
Hitler also offered immediate and sweet solutions to the battered country after the First World War...and look what happened...immediate solutions never come to fruition, damage of years takes time to repair...your daughter not in 4 years....
Shushi,
Pay no attention to the one who is passionate about spelling errors.
As if it doesn't happen to him.
I really want to comment on your great blog (I don't always agree with everything you write).
Do something, let them know there's a problem.
I try and try but in vain!
to Michael You're right. Thanks,
But I'm not a teacher!!! And you can't compare the errors either.
Michael responds 26- You are a real gentleman 🙂
Jonathan:
Shushi wrote quite a lot and there are few spelling errors in her words (in fact I spotted one that was repeated twice - the use of the word "no" instead of the word "lu")
The ratio between the number of spelling errors and the size of the text is higher with you (you wrote "Kativ" instead of "Kativ").
Spelling errors in text that is not properly proofread are common.
These errors are, in many cases, just a momentary glitch and not a lack of knowledge.
for Friday
Is it true that you are a teacher?
how did i know
According to the scribal errors.
Politicians prefer to invest in things whose results are already visible in their term.
The problem with education is that its results are evident only after many years. Therefore it should not be surprising that politicians may talk about the issue but when they come to invest in implementation - education is the last priority.
Higgs:
Because there are also smart blondes - there are those among them who know how to take advantage of the stigma.
Here is a story about one of them:
A businessman sits next to a blonde on a plane and decides to try to make some easy money.
He says to the blonde: "Let's play a game like this: you ask me a question and if I don't know the answer I'll pay you fifty shekels. Then I'll ask you a question and if you don't know the answer you'll pay me just five shekels."
The blonde agrees and asks: "What animal has eight legs and three heads?"
The businessman is forced to admit that he does not know the answer and gives her fifty NIS while asking: "So what animal is this really?"
"I don't know either" - the blonde answers and gives him five shekels back.
I was there, Netanyahu recited what was written not in the platform, but when asked further - for example about the lack of teachers, about the lack of teaching students there were no real answers.
He talked about sorting the outstanding students, but first of all he has to make sure that students want to go to teaching and then he can sort.
He was also asked about the privatization of education, and answered that there should be a public system but also accepts the private system.
The Minister of Education in a pre-recorded interview presented as if everything is rosy, as if all the problems in the education system have been solved by a new perspective, the problem is that she does not ask how the teachers feel in the field,
The same teachers who refused a new horizon and now it was forced upon them.
Those old teachers whose possibility of promotion was blocked and so on and so forth.
The big problem is that Ehud Barak thinks she is a good minister of education, she knows how to present herself as such, but the teachers in the field think otherwise. For them, Yuli Tamir will be a big disappointment.
Michael
In short, you think so too
It is better that they tell jokes instead of empty promises, speaking of jokes
My son said he chooses Livni because she is blonde. The story about the blonde who got on the plane
Newark Rome and sat straight in first class. The flight attendants told her that according to her ticket she should move to sit in the tourist class. The blonde insisted I deserve it because I'm blonde. They didn't like it, they went to the captain. He immediately told them, I was married to one like that for ten years, and I will take care of the matter easily. The captain approached her and whispered something in her ear. The blonde immediately got up and moved to sit in the tourist section. The shocked flight attendants turned to the captain "What did you say to her?" I simply said that this department does not come to Rome.
Higgs:
Contrary to the usual texts of election propaganda - here an effort is made to extract from the candidates real information about their plans.
I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
In my opinion - unlike the election broadcasts which do not provide any real information and details about the lowest levels of the listeners and viewers - here things were said that could be demanded from them to pay off.
Tzipi Livni - spoke, for example, about canceling the concessions made by Yuli Tamir for independent education.
Although a propaganda response here tried to claim that she copied her plan from Yuli Tamir, but we all know that, at least in this matter, it is the complete opposite.
I don't know if she will keep her promise if elected, but if she doesn't - at least we will gain knowledge about her reliability.
It is true that most of the public forgets - but I hope that at least the commenters here know how to demand from those who promise that they were chosen the account.
Unfortunately - the things said here are also quite vague and regarding them there is still a lot of room for questions of "what exactly?" and "how?".
It is not clear to me, for example, where the money will come from.
It is also not clear to me how they intend to turn the bad teachers into good ones.
This is about years of damage and the proposed solutions will not bring relief in the short term because it will take a long time for the system to be cleaned and new and good teachers to replace the old ones.
There may not be a magic solution, but those who want the public to understand why the results were not received during their term must say so in advance.
I am also saddened by the fact that no one is trying to present a sustainable solution - that is, one that manages to maintain its quality over the years.
Such a solution can only be achieved through differential wages that reward the good and punish the bad.
The best way to achieve competition without losing control of the state in the curriculum is the way of education vouchers, which has been successfully implemented in several countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_vouchers
Too bad no one talks about her.
Don't believe them. Education does not interest them, they want a stupid public that can be easily controlled from the television. Do you think that a smart public would agree that these would be its leaders?
They will not work on you.
Roy Tsezana:
Channel 10 tonight also gave everyone an equal opportunity, they call it election propaganda.
Speaks speaks words to his audience of words
On the other hand, you may be very innocent, so bless you
The problem is with the speaker who is stuck with his outdated capitalist idea of public education - which will degrade education and widen gaps. As Bibi is stuck in the capital market.
This patronizing idea is not Tzipi Livni's, she heard about it from Yuli Tamir.
The chosen ones think that the idea is brilliant and everyone wants or is able to become a teacher.
Shame and shame that the politicians do not confront each other on such and such issues!
Shame that silence and the lack of expressing a position on essential issues is the governor in the crown!
It is a shame that the desire to garner votes without upsetting anyone in the public, and without voicing their opinion in a solid and deep way, makes all the parties passive without any clarification to the potential electorate what is behind the face on their posters.
And XNUMX: "May God protect me from false promises, because I eat reality",
In my opinion, the intention of the propaganda was to present the opinions of the candidates. Not for imbalance.
I hope that there will be a lot of articles like this and that the politicians will lift their gloves and answer the public about what they think about all the issues that the surfers brought up here because really, except for the war and foreign policy and maybe a little about their economic plans, we know nothing.
Do many more articles and cross their shameful statements. They are afraid... to say something that might hurt them...
higgs,
Where is the propaganda here? My father gave equal representation to all three candidates, in the article that there will be many like her.
To the editor of "Yaden" magazine
Put pressure on the politicians, led by the three silent ones who only know how to speak in slogans about security, to provide us with some "propaganda" about what they think about the public agenda that parties like the Greens place as the first national priority.
The quality of the environment and the future of education and training (including higher education) should be heard from them and not in retrospect, after the elections.
Cheeky!
Higgs - I'm sorry, but I don't think you know what propaganda is and what exactly is going on in all the written media, which tries to dig a little deeper than the surface to find out what the candidates think ……
Not only the editor of the scientist website should write here about all the parties and their opinion on education issues, but the writers of all the websites related to society, science, technology and everything related to the education of our children, their future in terms of the quality of the environment, the quality of education, the brain drain, the lack of investments in science must also do so. , the small research budgets.
To dig and research and hear as much as possible what all the candidates think about all these very very important things to me as a mother and to me as a secular citizen to whom the future of Israel is important!
[And again, sorry for my overreaction] - I am a little surprised by the thought that I found myself defending Mr. Blizovsky. I promise it won't happen too often.
Regardless of the politicians themselves, even a "dark" and "primitive" Doss like me, agrees with the very importance that all three of them saw fit to attribute to the issue of education. And believe me, I don't mean money for meetings or for Torah education specifically. We need to find a way to strengthen the education system from kindergarten to higher education. This is not a matter of political agenda at all. It is an existential matter. In our soul the thing. I am horrified by the thought that when our strength is exhausted we will have to rely for our existence on graduates of dubious educational institutions, ignorant and mischievous, lacking minimal qualifications for the task. Therefore - money for education. As much as possible within the existing resources.
To me, this article reminds me of an educational/scientific song. Check: right right left left,, forward back,, rollover,,, one two three.. 😉
my father
You don't like the act of Bat Yana, propaganda is propaganda and elections are elections and words don't cost a dime
True ———> I hope that someday soon these days they will learn from Obama, the first green (black) president in the White House who raised the issues of society (stem cells, abortions, education, encouraging scientists), science and technologies and the environment to the public agenda.
Shlomit Steinberg,
Tel Aviv
When will the day come when all the media will be full of investigations and interviews like in the US about the green agenda of the leaders and not just about security and wars?
After all, the public is also interested in hearing what Netanyahu Barak or Livni have to say about renewable energies, about the quality of the environment and the terrible pollution in Israel, about Ramat Hovav, about wastewater, about recycling, about wind stations and solar energy, about the promotion of education and science. But they focus like fools on safety as if it is the only thing that convinces.
This is such an important layer in the political choice because these issues affect us on a daily level, it is not that the security view does not affect the decision - its effect is considerable. But such issues are no less important and should be on the political agenda, especially two weeks before the elections....
Interview Livni, Barak and Netanyahu here, let's hear what they say about the budgeting of the fading science? About the scientists who fled abroad? About the hi-tech and its rescue?
Let Netanyahu be first 🙂 He is the most interesting and will bring many people to the site - because he is silent and his every word is read by the people! But actually he is silent and does not really interview!
Interview Barak - or actually he is also quite silent and only throws slogans when he really has to!
Interview the chief scientist, the minister of science and all the politicians who are ready to announce what they are going to do with science in Israel!
Let them talk about the quality of the environment, let them talk about the education portfolio that is going to go to Shas, and what will happen to the real studies!
Yes, propaganda - for Tel Aviv University and an association that wants to take advantage of the elections to promote education in Israel, which will bring us the next generation of researchers instead of a generation of parasites.
If I had space I would have put all three of them in the first picture, I took Livni simply because she spoke first.
my father
propaganda??? Here???