School students are in for a surprise this year having their classes being given by the likes of journalist Yair Lapid and Former Deputy Chief of Staff Moshe Kaplinsky. The "new teachers" have agreed to take part in a promising campaign led by Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar.
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In recent weeks Education Ministry representatives approached leading Israeli figures in the fields of academics, business, media and health, to name a few, and sought their participation in the "Education Volunteers" project. The Education Ministry is targeting public figures that influence Israel's
social and cultural life.
The project will see volunteers giving a class on a topic of their choice or in their field of occupation.
The comprehensive campaign is being led by Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar as part of the ministry's efforts to bolster the teacher's status and the teaching profession. Sa'ar said that Israeli society is ready and willing to improve the teaching status, having acknowledged the importance of education to one's personal and national future.
"I am convinced that creating civilian volunteering circles around the education system will reinforce and enrich the system and educate on volunteering and giving," the minister said.
The new teachers will include such media figures as Sever Plocker, Emmanuel Halperin; medical officilas like Hadassah Medical Center Director-General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, and figures in entertainment and literature such as author Yehudit Rotem and actor Dov Navon. The new teachers will also come from the fields of sports, business and the military.
The new bid is joined by Chairman of the National Student Union Boaz Toporovsky and President of the Israel Bar Association Yori Geiron. The collaboration with the Bar Association will last the duration of the year, as lawyers will hold regular classes on the subject of law, most prominently in periphery communities.
In the coming school year minister Sa'ar will also continue his habit of teaching a civics class once a week in high schools around the country.
Meanwhile a communication of the Education Ministry's Pedagogic Administration suggests that teachers of students from low socio-economic backgrounds that will fail to bring about significant improvement with the students' achievements will be replaced.
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