Engaged Students

In last week’s newsletter Rabbi Feigenbaum mentioned the Twitter articles that I re-tweeted about motivation. I would like to focus on a similar but related topic and that is “Student Engagement”. Having students engaged and actively participating in the lesson is one of the keys to learning. There is a famous quote “Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.” This idea was evident this week in the Lower School Judaic classrooms as classes learned about sukkot. The Benot Sherut did an activity that had the students acting out a story about sukkot. In some classes they made a play about the Ushpiezen, the special guests we invite to the Sukkah. In other classes they made models of kosher and non kosher sukkot and displayed them in the hallway of the school. Some classes used technology and had to make up a question sheet based on a video they saw, while others made games and went to some of the younger classes to play their games with them. The common denominator in all of these examples is that our students were engaged and were learning.
Have a Chag Sameach
Akevy