TAP

by Lacey Friedman, Beth Sholom In the past couple months, I have learned a lot from being in the TAP program. One topic it has taught me about accommodating students who have a hard time concentrating in Hebrew School. After we took a month break from the program, we finally had a session again all together in the brand new year. This month, we had a meeting about how anyone including a comedian can help support mental health with Pam Schuller. Pam is someone who has a mental health disorder called Tourette's Disease. Although she has this disease she has [...]

by Rae Takiff, Or Hadash   In my time so far being a part of the TAP program I have learned many valuable and helpful things that have applied to my journey as a madricha at my Hebrew school and furthermore, to my own life and experiences. This past November TAP session was my favorite one yet.   We started off by sharing a rose and a thorn from our classroom experiences. A rose being a positive, successful experience and a thorn being a challenging or negative experience we may need some help with. I found it very beneficial to [...]

by Andrew Walters, Beth Tikvah B'nai Jeshurun   During the introduction workshops for the Reta Emerson Fellowship/Teen Assistant Program (TAP) that took place during the summer, I learned so many things that will hopefully be put into great use into being a more effective madrich (Hebrew school assistant) this year. In the first one that took place in-person at Or Hadash, I learned what the clear differences are between the jobs of teacher and madrichim as well as the jobs that overlap. I really liked this activity because before, I was sometimes confused if jobs I wanted to perform in [...]