JEWISH EDUCATION VENUES

Rodeph Sholom Religious School W.83rd St, NYC 1993-2001
Teacher, Library Specialist /Storyteller K through 4th grade, Nursery Program.

- Weekly classroom program - also taught special family Yachad and P.A.C.E
(Parent and Child Education) event programs

Role: Teaching Jewish values through the medium of interactive story telling and leading group processing. Choose and interactively tell stories relating to values and lessons found in the Torah, linking them to our own lived lives. Facilitate discussions of empowering ways to integrate these connections to spirit in their daily lives. This is an essential element to this work. Goals: - Foster a sense of being able to make a positive difference in this life in the present and future. - Facilitate and foster integrative processing, group discussions of the stories and themes, with focus on their relevance to each childÕs own life. - Nurture a sense of true community within the synagogue and within the world at large. At Rodoph Sholom Religious School, Devorah developed an original program that focused on creating ongoing original group Midrash stories with the children throughout all of the grades. In an interactive process, their own midrash was created through group collaboration using powerful Jewish stories as a foundation.

LIBRARY SPECIALIST/STORYTELLER, NON-SECULAR

Rodoph Sholom Day School NYC 1995-1997 Library Specialist, Nursery Division, 3 year olds program (see attached Program outline) Developed and taught weekly story-time program which incorporated use of recorded classical music as an underscore to the books. What I discovered about the use of this carefully chosen music was that it served to deepen the children's level of focus on the stories. For the children with various special needs challenges, adding the music made a huge difference in their engagement with the stories. Created interactive singing/movement piece to accompany each book, each week. As part of my library program, the children were invited to tell their own stories to the class each week. These were tape-recorded and transcribed. to view some of these stories click here.

CREATIVE ARTS SPECIALIST

Rodeph Sholom Day School West 83rd St. NYC 10024 Creative Arts Teacher, After School Enrichment Program: Designed and taught three separate classes for Kindergarten/1st Grade, Pre-K, and: Afterschool class descriptions: (others on request) My goal is to support the growth of a lifelong connection to their own creativity and a love of learning in children 1."Imagine That Workshop" In a playful atmosphere, the children explore and expand their greatest inner resource: their imagination! The workshop creates ongoing multifaceted projects incorporating art, puppetry, creative writing, creative dramatics, music and movement. Each week focuses on a different art form. Linking hands-on aesthetic experiences within the Arts creates an exciting learning forum that fosters expanded self-esteem, self-discovery. 2. "Create-A-Story Workshop" Child-centered adventures through the Creative Arts using expanded story-telling as the foundation. This is an ongoing workshop using a collaborative story-making process which weaves together Narrative Creative Writing, Improvisation, Art, Music-making, Song-writing, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry and humor through individual and group process. Each child creates their own original stories and books as well as group generated stories, enactments and songs.

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