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May the coming year be filled
with health and happiness for
all our family & friends.
IISHANAH TOVAH!
Gloria (Goldie) and Marvin Bookstein
Ann Arbor, Hillel day schools benefit
from teacher training.
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I May the coming year be filled
with health and happiness for
all our family & friends.
SHANAH TOVAH!
Mae & Milt Goodman
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Dorit Lehavy, Hebrew Day School Gan Hebrew teacher, talks with Dorit Schostak,
who works in the Hillel Day School Hebrew Resource Room.
T
he two area Solomon
Schechter day schools began
the school year with a joint
professional development program.
Teachers from the Hebrew Day
School of Ann Arbor and Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit
spent all day Aug. 24 learning about
"differentiated instruction," or how
to structure instruction so the needs
of all students are met.
"Take any two children, and you
will likely have two ways of learn-
ing," said Dina Shtull-Leber, head of
the Ann Arbor school. "Children
differ in how they process informa-
tion, in what they need to process
that information, and in how they
synthesize and integrate ideas."
Fifteen general and Judaic K-5
teachers and specialists from Ann
Arbor visited Farmington Hills to
spend the day with Hillel Day
School elementary school educators.
Grade level teachers met informally
over lunch to share teaching tech-
niques.
"Day school educators have a lot
in common," said Carol Gannon,
fifth-grade general studies teacher at
Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor.
"When we put our heads together,
we can support each other and do a
better job of reaching each one of
our children. A longtime dream of
ours was to spend quality time with
other day school educators."
Bev Warshai, Hebrew Day School's
music teacher, said, "It was a won-
derful and worthwhile day of profes-
sional development. We learned not
only about how our students learn,
but also how we learn. The more we
know about ourselves and others,
the better we can work as a team of
Jewish educators."
The day of study was supported
through a grant from the Segaloff
Family Philanthropic Fund, for an
area symposium for day school edu-
cators, and the support of Hillel Day
School.
The Segaloff Grant will allow the
teachers to continue this collabora-
tion. Ann Arbor teachers will schedule
a one-on-one follow-up meeting with
a same-grade-level teacher at Hillel.
There also will be time for observa-
tion and informal discussion.
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• j May the coming year be filled
.• with health and happiness for
all our family & friends.
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L'SHANAH TOVAH!
Rose & Mitchell Kent & Family
e ti;vi.sh our friends & family a very healthy,
happy and prosperous New Year.
The Satovsky Family
Carole, Howard, Jodi and Ryan
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9/10
2004
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