Michelle Farbman is the Dean of Students at Shulamith school for girls in Long Island, NY. She began teaching in 2008 at YCQ in NY. She was a morah there for 6 years and continued on to the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY where she was a morah and became director of Middle school girls. After being there for 7 years, Michelle came to Shulamith as a new administrator. She received her Bachelors in education from Stern college, a masters in education from Queens college, and completed the YU leadership program.
Gems:
- As a new educator, take advantage of the opportunity to be out in the field, learning while teaching.
- Veteran teachers should mentor and guide new teachers.
- Join with other educators who support each other.
- Learn ways to bring that excitement of Torah and classroom management all into one.
- Appreciate the privilege that you get to teach others about Hashem and Torah.
- Feed off your students.
- Encourage students to think about how they can develop their own relationship with Hashem.
- Connect with your students.
- Help students understand what they’re learning and how to apply it to their own lives.
- We are preparing our children to live their lives as Jews.
- Prepare students to take ownership of who they are.
- Teach them why we do what we do.
- Teach them respect for Hashem, Torah, and the shul.
- Show them that there is nothing we can do that will prevent us from returning to Hashem.
- Each child must be taught in their own way.
- Ask for help.
- Support our teachers.
- Teach children resilience.
- Don’t give up!
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