We started our day with a visit to full of all school administration meeting, which was fabulous. As Dr Schorr managed the whole meeting was absolutely effective and simply professional. As we see it, what she does is making the whole system work perfectly. She is a real leader in the literal meaning of this word, a leader who supports her managers the best way she can – that is what we all agreed on. Everybody “on her board” is a hundred per cent aware of the task they have to complete. She is a facilitator who facilitates her colleagues and provides them every way she possibly can. She and all her colleagues invest all their energy to make Beth Tfiloh the perfect place to educate, the perfect place to be educated in and the perfect place to remember for those who have graduated here.
About our lessons: for all of us it was the day when we were able to feel really confident and comfortable due to persistent support of all our co-teachers, due to the students who give us feedback on each lesson with their being cooperative and well-mannered. Their creative art lessons, which we could also be a part of, enable them to work better in their academic lessons – that is how art subjects can give a sense to the big whole. Besides teaching and due to the cancellation of our today’s seminar (which usually prevents us from doing observations), we had a bit more opportunities to visit other lessons. According to our experiences on some History lessons we could see how different it is to prefer teaching critical thinking to chronology. Thanks to Jeff, the leader of the Athletics Department we could take a glimpse at the sports lessons as well. It was very interesting to learn about the slight differences between the Physical Education in USA and Hungary. Special thanks to the librarian lady who helped our colleague get a resource that seemed to be impossible to get. The word that concludes the secret of efficient work in BT is STRATEGY which is: PLAN-DO-CHECK-FEEDBACK-CORRECT-PLAN-DO-CHECK-CORRECT…. We are all looking forward to the challenges of our following day..
