Will I be Chosen?
As I patiently waited to hear whether I would be accepted to attend the trip to the Sandor Scheiber Gimnazium school in Budapest, time dragged on. I really hoped to get in. Ever since the fall when ...
Category: HS Gesher Ambassadors Program
Apprehension? Nervousness?
This coming Sunday I will leave for Hungary to teach at the Scheiber Sandor Jewish Day School in Budapest. Since this is my third year as a guest teacher in the school, you would think that I would ...
New Opportunities, Familiar Friends
I have carefully placed my lesson plans in a clear, plastic folder, neatly typed and ready for me to engage a class of 8th graders and one of 12th graders. I have stacked my clothes in tidy packable ...
Forging Relationships and Creating Memories
With less than a week left before I depart for Hungary, I nervously await the journey to come. When I first read my name on the acceptance email, I felt ecstatic. I felt ...
Preparing
As I sit here in my comfy chair in my room I feel an uncontrollable excitement for my upcoming trip to Budapest. I think back to when my journey with SOS began with a Shabbaton that I attended earlier ...
Excitement is building…
As the day of departure gets close, I become equally excited and nervous. The excitement from the knowledge that I will be going to another country to help teach a very important subject, Judaism. But ...
Anticipation and expectations
Less than two weeks remain before our departure. Each day anticipation builds, and questions float through my mind—will I make connections? Will I have fun? Will I be successful in enriching the Jewish ...
So Much to Learn and Share
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 ...
Who’ll be the first?
In our amazing week at the Adelson Campus, the most inspiring educational experience for me was their Humanities class in 9th and 10th grade – which they started this academic year, and where ...
What happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas
Our stay in Las Vegas was really, really unique.
I have learned a lot at the Adelson school. From next week on I will incorporate a different approach into my teaching methods.
I will set a specific goal ...
Breathless and Speechless
Although the main goal of our exchange program was not the extracurricular part, these programs provided a very important context to our visit to the school itself, and they will ...
Opportunity through new lenses
Study tours give teachers and students the opportunity to gain local and international experience, they offer us the opportunity to see each other through new lenses. As a teacher of Science, ...
Some real food for thought!
We all enjoy the warm welcome of the Adelson community coming from the leaders, the teachers and the students of this fantastic school. It is such a nice school environment where people, in general, ...
Experiences in The Adelson Educational Campus
It is wonderful to have the opportunity to see and experience how a school in the US is operating, a school that is quite similar to our school (Lauder Javne School). It was nice to be welcomed so warmly ...
Beginning a new experience
We had our first day at AEC yesterday. I had a great time with Elisabeth and Macy touring the school. It is so friendly, there is so much space and the atmosphere is wonderful. I felt like joining a ...
THIS IS ME!
Even though it will take weeks to process and decompress from the amazing week that we had here, I am just relieved on the success of the culminating experience we got to share with everyone yesterday. ...
What’s our MO?
modus operandi
noun
A particular way or method of doing something.
It’s day 5 at the Lauder school and today has been a reflection of what we have learned and experienced throughout the week. As we ...
HOW WILL I TEACH MY STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT I’VE LEARNED
One of my favorite activities to lead or observe students in the middle grades doing is learning about their identities and how they choose to express them. ...
köszönöm
Köszönöm is the first word I learned on our very first night in Hungary. Peter Varga, my partner teacher, taught it to me at our welcome dinner, and it is the word that characterizes my week in Hungary. ...
The Best Sounds in the World
There is no better sound in the world…
than voices of little children playing, discovering and learning about their world.
There ...
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Apprehension? Nervousness?
This coming Sunday I will leave for Hungary to teach at the Scheiber Sandor Jewish Day School in Budapest. Since this is my third year as a guest teacher in the school, you would think that I would ...
New Opportunities, Familiar Friends
I have carefully placed my lesson plans in a clear, plastic folder, neatly typed and ready for me to engage a class of 8th graders and one of 12th graders. I have stacked my clothes in tidy packable ...
Forging Relationships and Creating Memories
With less than a week left before I depart for Hungary, I nervously await the journey to come. When I first read my name on the acceptance email, I felt ecstatic. I felt ...
Preparing
As I sit here in my comfy chair in my room I feel an uncontrollable excitement for my upcoming trip to Budapest. I think back to when my journey with SOS began with a Shabbaton that I attended earlier ...
Excitement is building…
As the day of departure gets close, I become equally excited and nervous. The excitement from the knowledge that I will be going to another country to help teach a very important subject, Judaism. But ...
Anticipation and expectations
Less than two weeks remain before our departure. Each day anticipation builds, and questions float through my mind—will I make connections? Will I have fun? Will I be successful in enriching the Jewish ...
So Much to Learn and Share
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 ...
Who’ll be the first?
In our amazing week at the Adelson Campus, the most inspiring educational experience for me was their Humanities class in 9th and 10th grade – which they started this academic year, and where ...
What happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas
Our stay in Las Vegas was really, really unique.
I have learned a lot at the Adelson school. From next week on I will incorporate a different approach into my teaching methods.
I will set a specific goal ...
Breathless and Speechless
Although the main goal of our exchange program was not the extracurricular part, these programs provided a very important context to our visit to the school itself, and they will ...
Opportunity through new lenses
Study tours give teachers and students the opportunity to gain local and international experience, they offer us the opportunity to see each other through new lenses. As a teacher of Science, ...
Some real food for thought!
We all enjoy the warm welcome of the Adelson community coming from the leaders, the teachers and the students of this fantastic school. It is such a nice school environment where people, in general, ...
Experiences in The Adelson Educational Campus
It is wonderful to have the opportunity to see and experience how a school in the US is operating, a school that is quite similar to our school (Lauder Javne School). It was nice to be welcomed so warmly ...
Beginning a new experience
We had our first day at AEC yesterday. I had a great time with Elisabeth and Macy touring the school. It is so friendly, there is so much space and the atmosphere is wonderful. I felt like joining a ...
THIS IS ME!
Even though it will take weeks to process and decompress from the amazing week that we had here, I am just relieved on the success of the culminating experience we got to share with everyone yesterday. ...
What’s our MO?
modus operandi
noun
A particular way or method of doing something.
It’s day 5 at the Lauder school and today has been a reflection of what we have learned and experienced throughout the week. As we ...
HOW WILL I TEACH MY STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT I’VE LEARNED
One of my favorite activities to lead or observe students in the middle grades doing is learning about their identities and how they choose to express them. ...
köszönöm
Köszönöm is the first word I learned on our very first night in Hungary. Peter Varga, my partner teacher, taught it to me at our welcome dinner, and it is the word that characterizes my week in Hungary. ...
The Best Sounds in the World
There is no better sound in the world…
than voices of little children playing, discovering and learning about their world.
There ...