Day 61 - December 8, 2023 - A New Teaching Role

Over the past few weeks I've taken on a new role in my teaching career.

In addition to teaching and coordinating the English department, I'm now also a homeroom teacher for 8th grade boys.

This has been a whole new experience for me. In my perspective and based on past experiences, the boys of this age group are some of the hardest to teach.

Some take aways after our first few weeks together.

1. Many of these boys have been left without fathers at home (away at war), and the same goes for their regular homeroom teacher.

2. Boys cry too.

3. They have shown me more love and respect from the moment I walked in the door than I ever expected.

4. They were craving a homeroom teacher and the "normalcy" that comes with a "main teacher"

5. I've been most of the boy's English teacher at some point over the last 5 years so we have a nice place to start from.

These boys have a different strength than I expected. As pictured they jump at volunteer opportunities. We've worked at 2 farms in Tekoa on different projects and a few went and played music for the kindergartens at the end of the week too.

By far, this is the most challenging position I've taken on in education. I'm now teaching subjects I have never taught like Torah, Parshat HaShavua, Gemarah, and Science.

Who knows how long this will last, but I'm sure by the time it's over it will also be one of the most rewarding things I've undertaken.

Looking for work or a change of career?

A way to help and work with kids?

Let me know.

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