What did the Students Think? - Learning from Experience

Meet the teachers and students

Tammy Jacobowitz and Lucy Hecht - SAR High School, New York

Tammy teaches Tanakh and Lucy is a graduating senior.

Shifra Elman and Dahlia Soussan - Kehillah Jewish High School, Palo Alto, CA

Shifra is a Jewish studies teacher and Dahlia is a graduating senior.

Aviva Gershman, Sophie Obstfeld, and Matan Goldstein - Charles E Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville, MD

Aviva is the outgoing chair of the Jewish text department of the upper school. Sophie is in eighth grade and Matan is in tenth grade.

What was difficult?

As you watch, please consider the following:

  • What, if anything, is surprising to you about the way these students describe the challenges of pandemic learning?

  • What techniques do you use to engage your students and encourage conversation? How did that change - or stay the same - over the course of the pandemic? Is there anything you learned from the challenges or advantages of engaging students over Zoom that will stay with you?

  • What are you wondering about?

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What was good?

As you watch, please consider the following:

  • What, if anything, is surprising to you about the way these students describe the challenges of pandemic learning?

  • What techniques do you use to engage your students and encourage conversation? How did that change - or stay the same - over the course of the pandemic? Is there anything you learned from the challenges or advantages of engaging students over Zoom that will stay with you?

  • What are you wondering about?

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What skills have you developed this year?

As you watch, please consider the following:

  • What, if anything, is surprising to you about the way these students describe the challenges of pandemic learning?

  • What techniques do you use to engage your students and encourage conversation? How did that change - or stay the same - over the course of the pandemic? Is there anything you learned from the challenges or advantages of engaging students over Zoom that will stay with you?

  • What are you wondering about?

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Independent Learning

As you watch, please consider the following:

  • What, if anything, is surprising to you about the way these students describe the challenges of pandemic learning?

  • What techniques do you use to engage your students and encourage conversation? How did that change - or stay the same - over the course of the pandemic? Is there anything you learned from the challenges or advantages of engaging students over Zoom that will stay with you?

  • What are you wondering about?

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What do you want teachers to know?

As you watch, please consider the following:

  • What, if anything, is surprising to you about the messages these students want to convey?

  • What do you most want your students (parents, etc.) to know about this year of teaching?

  • What are you wondering about?

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