Switching Roles at Ohel Cheder

By COLlive staff

The other day, teachers became the students and parents became the teachers at Cheder at the Ohel, a Chabad boys school located in Valley Steam, Long Island.

Education consultant Rabbi Dovid Jacobson PH.D of Los Angeles returned for part two of a four part workshop in which he met with teachers, while parents volunteered to daven, learn and supervise the students.

The morning session was on how to improve the nuts and bolts of the Cheder and in the second session, Jacobson proceeded to his main point: How to make the classroom an engaging, interactive place.

He introduced his methods and spoke of how to incorporate these methods into the classroom. The teachers were all very receptive and interested in making their teaching time as productive as possible.

The goal of these methods is to teach and reach all the children in the class all of the time, a Cheder spokesperson said, and thanked Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, Director of the Merkos Chinuch Office for enabling the workshop via a grant.

These sessions are coming just at the start of registration for the 5773 school year. The Cheder prides itself for providing a smaller class size.

One parent, in explaining why they chose the Cheder, said “(we come) for the chinuch, for the small class size, for the classroom (teacher/student) dynamics and the chassidishkit.”