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11/17/2021

The Essential Difference of Da'ehu Montessori

The essential difference between Montessori and the traditional educational approach is that the traditional approach regards children's minds as empty vessels waiting for us adults to fill them. Montessori, on the othe...

10/17/2021

Building Block of Society

Society is the cumulative total of all of the generations of individuals of whom it has been comprised. Each of those individuals is primarily the result of his/her formative years. Well-rounded, well-adjusted and well...

02/03/2021

Da'ehu is a new Montessori school in Passaic/Clifton with a mission to teach the whole child to know Hashem and give children the academic, social and emotional foundations necessary to become caring innovators in a world which is increasingly lacking care and innovation. Da'ehu seeks a loving, intelligent and creative head teacher for the 2021-2022 school year. The first year will be a mixed-age three- and four-year-old program, which will, IY"H, grow to 3-5 year-olds with the school growing all the way to 12th grade over time. The eventual collaborative team of five head teachers will be responsible for the tuning and adjustment of a student-centered and hands-on integrated curriculum designed to release the sheer fun of authentic learning. This is an opportunity to take bottom-up ownership of the classroom in a progressive work environment designed to unleash the sheer fun of teaching. Montessori training will be provided.

Responsibilities:
Close observation of students to understand their individual educational needs as demonstrated by students' choices in their learning environment.
Day-to-day adjustment of the learning environment as dictated by the above observations.
How-to demonstrations of the correct procedures for engaging in developmentally appropriate learning activities.
Supervising and facilitating as necessary students' development of a portfolio of accomplishments.
Tracking and logging students' mastery of requisite skills as evidenced by their successful completion of authentic learning activities.
Qualifications:
A role model of ahavas Hashem and ahavas hab'rios.
Have experience caring for 3-5 year-old children.
Possess an understanding of and appreciation for Child-Centered Education.
Curiosity about the surrounding world.
Growth mindset and dedication to the objective.
Formal "traditional" classroom experience is not necessarily an advantage
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications.

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume and references to [email protected].

02/03/2021

Da'ehu is a new Montessori school in Passaic/Clifton with a mission to teach the whole child to know Hashem and give children the academic, social and emotional foundations necessary to become caring innovators in a world which is increasingly lacking care and innovation. Da'ehu seeks a loving, intelligent and creative head teacher for the 2021-2022 school year. The first year will be a mixed-age three- and four-year-old program, which will, IY"H, grow to 3-5 year-olds with the school growing all the way to 12th grade over time. The eventual collaborative team of five head teachers will be responsible for the tuning and adjustment of a student-centered and hands-on integrated curriculum designed to release the sheer fun of authentic learning. This is an opportunity to take bottom-up ownership of the classroom in a progressive work environment designed to unleash the sheer fun of teaching. Montessori training will be provided.

Responsibilities:
*Close observation of students to understand their individual educational needs as demonstrated by students' choices in their learning environment.
*Day-to-day adjustment of the learning environment as dictated by the above observations.
*How-to demonstrations of the correct procedures for engaging in developmentally appropriate learning activities.
*Supervising and facilitating as necessary students' development of a portfolio of accomplishments.
*Tracking and logging students' mastery of requisite skills as evidenced by their successful completion of authentic learning activities.

Qualifications:
*A role model of ahavas Hashem and ahavas hab'rios.
*Have experience caring for 3-5 year-old children.
*Possess an understanding of and appreciation for Child-Centered Education.
*Curiosity about the surrounding world.
*Growth mindset and dedication to the objective.

Formal "traditional" classroom experience is not necessarily an advantage

Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications.

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume and references to [email protected].

01/13/2021

Support Da'ehu on Amazon SMILE

You can now support Da'ehu by shopping on Amazon SMILE. Use https://smile.amazon.com/ch/83-3246117 to set your preferred Amazon charity to Da'ehu and help us to teach the whole child to know Hashem, with stronger educ...

09/13/2020

The way PD ought to work!

The traditional form of professional development for teachers is what we call a Professional Development Day. I have led many of those workshops and, because they were so well received, have even been called back by nam...

08/02/2020

Children need to know this.

If G-d created Humankind in order to have a relationship with His Creation, בין אדם למקום (between Man and G-d), Adam alone should have sufficed. If G-d wanted us to have a relationship with each other, בין אדם לחבירו (b...

07/26/2020

A life-skill that ought to be taught.

In Judaism there's a concept called חשבון הנפש - an accounting of the soul. What did I do today? Did I make the right choices?

07/19/2020

Children should be surrounded by more learners and fewer teachers.

Are your children students or learners? One way to tell is when he or she gets a B+. Does he stop there or make an effort to understand what he missed? Does he inquire about how the world works when there's no grade a...

07/12/2020

Here's a hands-on learning activity for the Three Weeks.

During this period before Tisha b'Av, open Sefer Sh'mos and spend some time with your child modeling the Mishkan (Tabernacle). Use blocks or Kapla or crayons or whatever your child wants. Challenge your child to captur...

07/05/2020

Let's focus education on the objective.

Every school I've ever seen or heard of is structured laterally. There is an administration for elementary, another for middle and yet another for high school and sometimes, due to a large number of concurrent classes, ...

06/28/2020

It's all about building a relationship with G-d

In a search of religious private schools, Jewish or otherwise, I have found very few schools that even mention G-d in their mission statements. The purpose of Creation is to have a relationship with G-d. The purpose of...