For me, it was the first time ever in the United States and the second occasion participating in the Morim Limmud Program. Therefore I had already known all the SSG/BT students and teachers attending the program.
Before our departure I was very excited because of the unknown places I would visit and I was curious to see some new ways of teaching and get some more resources to use in my work. The transatlantic flight was also one of the reasons for being excited.
Our journey was safe and sound and our welcome was heart-warming.
The days passed faster than I thought they would due to the numerous experiences we had. We visited Baltimore, Washington DC, we had useful meetings and most of all: the school.
Being there at Beth Tfiloh was a turning point in my life as I had always wanted to know the American way of 
approaching Sciences and teaching them. Now I’ve got a huge amount of examples, methods, and ideas about it. Through this experience, I have plenty of ideas and projects to implement in my everyday practice. It can make my work more efficient and for my students, the time spent with learning will become more pleasurable and easier. It was a pleasure to see a society and an education system which believes that Sciences represented the future. They also believe that we have to prepare our students for it and provide them with the competence to use so that it can make their lives successful and make this planet a better place to live on.
The other big surprise for me was the STEM-lab and how it was involved in the curriculum. It was a big novelty for me, I had heard about it, but I didn’t know its meaning in the practice. The integrated approach to these materials is essential in this century. I feel lucky to be probably one of the first ones from Hungary to see this integrated method in everyday teaching and gave me the possibility to adapt it to our curriculum.
The Morim Limmud Program gave me new ideas to accomplish and let me see how a modern school does work, what is needed in the 21st century.
That is why I felt I had to write this blog to give thanks to Alan Reinitz, Glynis Smith and the SOS Morim Limmud Program to make my ways of teaching change and gave me the opportunity to show and explain to my colleagues all I had seen. ~Ferenc Mark, SSG Educator, Science
