Keeping students engaged from behind a screen is a challenge, and this is especially true when it comes to teaching young children online. Just because it’s challenging, however, doesn’t mean it isn’t doable – and enjoyable! When teaching young children,...
When I taught Hebrew at an elementary school, one of my students’ favorite learning activities was playing matching games in my small groups. Aside from adding fun and competition to the language classroom, matching games are great for providing repetition of...
I have a confession to make – I love professional development. And when I say professional development, I don’t mean those weekly (or daily!) after school meetings that many of us are forced to endure, with content that is often unhelpful or irrelevant to world...
If you’re manually copying links to add your YouTube videos to Canvas or another LMS, you’re doing it wrong! When I started using Canvas LMS for my online Hebrew classes several months ago, I would upload my video recordings to YouTube, copy the link, open the class...
I love to teach Hebrew in Hebrew, even to beginners. It’s not as hard as you might think – and that’s not to say it’s easy – but with pictures and drawings, body language and facial expressions, real artifacts and other supports, students can learn Hebrew...
Have you ever thought about what you would do if a student yells out COCK in your classroom? No? Cool, me neither. It happened to me two years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was teaching my last class of the day, a rambunctious group of 4th grade...
