TAP

by Charlotte Molot from Germantown Jewish Centre When I started working at Germantown Jewish Centre (GJC) as a Madrich in Fall 2024, I was nervous. I’ve never really connected to kids, and I had no idea what I was doing. At the start of this year (my second year), I went from working with fourth graders to working with an age group only two years younger than me. Despite having a year of experience under my belt, I felt no more prepared to work with the sixth and seventh graders. And now I had an additional fear... I [...]

by Jonah Spitzer from Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El As an educator in the Jewish community, I believe that the TAP program was very beneficial to me. It provided insight on a lot of things I was confused about, as well as gave me better ways to help my students and become a better educator. My experience in the TAP program consisted of many virtual zoom meetings, each focused on a different topic. The one that spoke most to me, and ended up helping me in a professional environment was the “All Behavior is Communication” lesson. This lesson taught [...]

by Talia Wine from Beth Tikveh B'nai Jeshurun As someone who is very involved and cares about kids and teaching, I was excited to start the TAP program. That first day at Or Hadash completely changed my view of what the program was, originally I thought we were going to be learning how to be the teacher but really we were learning how to help all kids enjoy their time at Hebrew school. My big takeaway from the whole program is that all behavior is communication. Once we went over this lesson I quickly applied it to my [...]