Just as any other field, education constantly evolves through new ideas and methodologies. To help keep faculty at the forefront of this ever-changing landscape, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe recently held its annual Professional Development Day workshops, providing rabbeim and teachers with an opportunity to engage in continuing professional education The workshops for first, second, and third grade rabbeim was given by Mrs. Bracha Kasirer and focused on detecting and addressing reading issues in the classroom. The rabbeim for grades four through eight were addressed by Rabbi Menachem Schiff, who stressed the need to understand student errors
and outlined strategies for assisting students in identifying and rectifying their own errors. Mrs. Etti Siegel presented to the general studies staff on implementing Common Core curricula and themes in the language arts, history, and science. While Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe always places great emphasis on professional development, the Professional Development Day workshops afford the faculty the opportunity for in-depth examination of timely, crucial topics in education. The yeshiva thanks the Parents Association for its continued support of Professional Development Days.
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Professional Development Day at Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 5:30 PM DA MIKELE ILLAGIO 79-17 ALBION AVENUE QUEENS, NEW YORK
honoring MUSMACHIM OF 2011-2014 HARBOTZAS TORAH AWARD
RABBI YEHUDA SHMULEWITZ ALUMNI OF THE YEAR
RABBI KOBY MILGRAUM (‘06) MEIR MILGRAUM (‘08) ELCHANAN MILGRAUM (‘09) MICHA MILGRAUM (‘12) & PARENTS OF THE YEAR
RABBI & MRS. MICHAEL HASTEN
For more information, to make reservations, to place a journal ad or to make a contribution please go to www.touro.edu/chag-hasmicha or call Shelly Weiner at 212.463.0400 ext. 5264 or shelly.weiner@touro.edu.
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*Special thanks to the mothers who chaperoned this trip: Mrs. Hellman (Sori’s mother), Mrs. Schnitzer (Rissel’s mother), Mrs. Perkal (Eliana’s mother), Mrs. Karmely (Batsheva’s mother), and Mrs. Bender (Malkie’s mother).
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migrant girl named Victoria Confino. The facts she incorporated in her narrative have been authenticated by Victoria’s granddaughter. The tour guide recounted the challenging circumstances under which the Confinos lived. Victoria had ten family members living in her small tenement apartment, some sleeping in the living room and some on the kitchen floor. To further enhance the girls’ experiences, they were each assigned the role of a member of a newly immigrated family. Each girl assumed the accent of the country from which she “emigrated” and asked Victoria for help in adjusting to her new circumstances in this new and confusing world. Between the real-life narrative of Mrs. Greher and the role-playing at the museum, the girls got a real sense of the ordeals which many of their own ancestors experienced. Appropriately, the trip ended with the delicious crunch of barrel pickles purchased from an East Side vendor. Now that is really getting a taste of an era that was!
In conjunction with their history studies about the mass European immigration in the early 1900s, BBY’s eighth graders took a fascinating trip to Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While Mrs. Devorah Wolf, the eighth grade history teacher, was arranging the trip, a student mentioned that her grandmother was one such immigrant and that, at 101 years of age, she still lived across the street from the famed Bialistoker Shul on the East Side. Moreover, Brocha Bokow asserted, her grandmother would love to share her experiences. Mrs. Wolf quickly made arrangements to incorporate a visit to Mrs. Greher, shetichya, into the itinerary for the 8th grade trip. What a valuable slice of history Mrs. Greher provided! Personable and charming, Mrs. Greher related her memories of her father searching for a new job every Monday morning because of his refusal to work on Shabbos. She recalled the many challenges of that era such as dragging ice up many flights of stairs to keep their icebox cool and sharing a bed with a number of her sisters. After the informative and fascinating discussion with Mrs. Greher, the 8th graders paid a visit to the Tenement Museum. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by a costumed tour guide who reenacted the life of a Jewish Greek im-
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