Starting our day with the Academic Support Team was another possibility to learn for us. As our school, SSG is a place where Special Need children are integrated in regular classes, it was really useful for us to get information about the way how it works in Beth Tfiloh. To perceive, check and diagnose a student with special need is really professional, that is something that we will certainly take and bring back home. The back up of these children works very efficiently here. We have also learnt a lot at the meeting with the team of the social workers who provided plenty of amazing resources for us to bring back home, special thanks to Rochelle and Vicky. Some of us were still able to get to know new colleagues. We have had extra help from our co-teachers as well on all the lessons today, which enabled us all to feel really pleased. Special thanks to the Physical Education Department to give us the chance to observe some lessons, we really appreciated their attitude. There were several things to adopt in Hebrew teaching, thank you for the extra effort for each and every co-teacher today. And we can’t express how much we appreciate Chaim’s effort to provide the most delicious kosher food we could have here in Beth Tfiloh. Each of us enjoyed the whole day in the school. For now we are absolutely aware of the places in the school. Thanks to Rabbi Soskil we also learned about the two main ideas to discipline children and this is also something that we are bringing back home. Either we or our colleagues think that the terms of discipline must be the following: we need to have a genuine sense of treating people appropriately and the other thing is relationship building. All of us think that the parents should also be educated. We could experience how charity works here in Baltimore and it made us feel proud of ourselves. Closing our blog let us do it with a quotation by Rabbi Soskil: “Love your friend the same way as you love yourself.”
