TAP

by Miranda Eisenstein, Old York Road – Beth Am Today we learned how hands on learning can be beneficial to teaching children. With games, movement, and fidgets a student’s retention of the information can be longer and they can be excited about learning. When we first came into the meeting, we met our guest speaker, and began speaking about why hands-on learning is important. As we have spoken about previously, different people have different learning styles. Each of these learning styles have different ways of teaching that they will respond best to. Each visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learner can respond [...]

by Natalie Lieberman, Jewish Children's Folkshul Even though our December meeting was cut short, we still got to the main point and reached the idea that when kids are rowdy or unhappy, there are different educational means to keep them engaged and learning. In this session, we tested out different possibilities to keep kids interested while still learning Hebrew/an aspect of Judaism. By understanding that students are more likely to remember a lesson when they enjoyed learning it, we focused on creating educational activities that leave a positive mark behind. In order to keep students engrossed in the lesson, we [...]

by Sheyenne Abraham, Adath Israel There are many different ways that people can learn.  Some learn best through lectures and others learn best when actually doing examples of what is being taught.  On December 4, we met in person to learn about different ways we can get children engaged in learning, and having fun while doing so.  We first started out with an activity where we rolled a die and read the word in the Hanukkah blessings that corresponded with the number that was facing up on the die.  After this, we went to different stations to learn about the [...]