TAP

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 [...]

By Raffi Van Wie, Keneseth Israel Our TAP session on November Seventh was great, very engaging and interesting.  To begin the session, we did a jamboard (our names, a picture of ourselves and a quote that fits TAP or Judaism). We also learned about different types of disability languages such as person first and identity first and medical and social model and about the differences between each other. This will really help us when we are working with kids. We did a quick personality test on our attention span and it was very fun. We talked about different types of [...]

by Chase Weisberg, Adath Israel There are many different types of attention. By having knowledge of these types of attention we can help our students, as aids, be in the best environment to have the most successful learning experience. The different types of attention are: sustained (A continuous attention span; most likely in long time periods), alternating (shifting of the attention focus), and selective (selecting a certain thing to focus on while suppressing irrelevant information). In this session of TAP we learned how to utilize our knowledge of different types of attention to make a successful learning environment. In the [...]