I heard about the Morim Limmud Program founded and supported by SOS International: Enriching Jewish Identities from my colleagues two years ago when they were discussing it. Although I could not join the project then, I became interested to hear their reports about the experiences they collected in the States.
Not long after my colleagues arrived home from Baltimore I was told that a Science teacher was needed in the project to collaborate with the American colleague who also newly joined the project. Therefore the Hungarian team asked me to join them and be the partner of Vince Bonina.
It is always interesting to make bridges between two countries, get connected with new people from another part of the world and learn their thoughts, reasons about how they see the world.
I hope I can meet new people, I would like to learn new things from them and I am sure I will learn new points of view to observe the world from some other sides of the Jewish tradition. There’s also a professional side of my interest: as a teacher it is very useful for me to learn from an American colleague. I will be able to see a different way of transmitting knowledge, their preferred inductive way of examining the problems. I can also see that their approach is more focused on the every day’s importance of the subject in the curriculum.
I wish to bring the two communities closer to each other and to learn a lot while I am participating in this program. Last, but not least I can develop my skills as a teacher.
Ferenc Márk, Science teacher SSG
