by Ilan Elsila  | Germantown Jewish Centre Since 2023, I have been a madrich, or assistant teacher, at my synagogue’s religious school. I really enjoy working with kids and teaching them Judaism. I’ve attended Jewish day school my whole life, so I can share my Jewish knowledge with the children. TAP has helped me learn how to work with kids with disabilities and I can use the skills I learned at TAP to better support those who need it.  One important lesson I learned from the TAP program was about “all behavior is communication”. This saying means that [...]

by Hannah Van de Stouwe | Kesher Israel I feel from TAP I have learned so many different things kids can go through and how I can help them fix it through learning tasks. I feel TAP has not only helped me understand how I’m feeling in the classroom but also how the other kids might be feeling, especially if they have learning disabilities and stuff like that. It can be harder for them to learn and you have to pay really close attention to every kid because you don’t know what could be going on. An experience [...]

by Halie Rosenfeld | Beth Tikvah B’nai Jeshurun TAP has taught me so much because as someone with a learning disability I learned how to help others that also have learning disabilities. I learned about different types of disabilities that people can have and I also learned good ways to help them. TAP has taught me that everyone learns so differently so the way that you learn something is probably not the same as the way that the kids in your class learn things. So you need to find the best way that each student learns and go [...]