Educators Join Webinar to Better Online School

Shluchim and homeschoolers from around the globe gathered last week for a virtual meeting on curriculum, the first webinar hosted by the Shluchim Office’s pilot program, Partners in Teaching.

After years of developing curriculum for the Online School, the Shluchim Office has offered the opportunity to take advantage of a syllabus, curriculum and support to anyone seeking quality educational materials for their students and children. To date, close to twenty educators have joined, representing several chedorim and individual shluchim and homeschoolers who are looking for more. Participants from California, the United Kingdom, Israel, Pennsylvania and Connecticut were logged into last week’s webinar.

The webinar featured insights into education from the Online School principal, Mrs. Gitty Rosenfeld, followed by an overview of key elements of the Online School’s curriculum. A teacher in the Online School for several years, Morah Rochel Harlig, gave a presentation about creative and hands on ways to bring a curriculum to life in the classroom, and PiT members also shared their own ideas for one another’s benefit.

Partners in Teaching is directed by Mrs. Mushky Lipsker and Ms. Chanah Poltorak, and is a project of the Shluchim Office, headed by Rabbi Gedalya Shemtov and Rabbi Moshe Shemtov. Members of Partners in Teaching receive a comprehensive syllabus for each grade, curriculum guidelines for a variety of subjects throughout the year, and access to resources such as Online School workbooks and textbooks and consultation with the school’s staff members.

School administrators hiring new or experienced teachers who want to ease their teachers’ workload, or Shluchim who would like to homeschool their children apart from or in combination with Online School classes, have turned to the Online School for this new and expanded service, and met each other and the PiT staff for the first time in last week’s fully interactive webinar.

For more information about Partners in Teaching or to join, click here.