Our special week at the Adelson Campus has been wonderful. In the last few days, I have seen the benefits of providing different elective classes to students. Observing these middle-school lessons built into the morning schedule was a real eye-opener. Kids can get involved in art, coding, theatre or any other course of their choice during core school time, instead of staying in for long afternoon hours. I personally loved the 7th and 8th grade humanities projects that our American colleagues presented – I think we would definitely borrow some of these great ideas. In project-based learning, skills are being developed and one has to be brave enough to leave certain things behind (e.g. chronology in history or science). We also saw that some of our problems are often the same: it is not easy to involve a Judaics teacher in these projects in ea
ch grade – this is a difficulty Jewish schools outside Israel share. I personally loved the idea of daily “town hall meetings” which is a great way of sharing information and seeing the middle school, the high school, or both of them together for a short period of time every day. The Kabbalat Shabbat with a lovely musical performance was our chance to say thank you to the school and SOS International for a great week at Adelson.
