REED Enjoying JHS Course!

Session One

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Tal shpihel ramat hadassah

SHULAMIT

DEKEL

HERTZOG

With my loved ones

• Take a selfie or have someone else take your photo.
• Choose an unused slide and write your name and school name in the title bar.
• Paste the photo on the slide and write a few words about why the photo is special.
• Use the comment function to say hello to someone else in the group.

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Keren Oberman

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Alex litzky, Herzog, Beit Hashmonai

A Classic selfie 🤳

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Galit Elkarif-Tzur Western Galilee High School

Hi Dear, love you

Just an ordinary afternoon selfi...

Gali Asa

Shittim Darca

With my darlings at a family bar-mitzva.

Nice activities to get to know my students better.

• I ask each student to write 3 facts about themselves on a piece of paper. I put on music, the students then travel around the room. When the music stops-they pair up, share verbally their facts, and exchange notes. Music on, walking in the room again. When the music stops, they pair up again, this time they share the info they were given by their friend (not their own), and switch notes again. This can be repeated one more time.

Finally, we sit in a circle, each kid reads out the facts he was given, and everyone tries to guess who it is.

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2. Throwing a ball, each kid tells his hobby/favorite subject/favorite movie-and throws it to someone else who must repeat it, and tell his own, then throw it again.

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3. I really loved the idea about the yarn ball, written at the bottom of session two. I’m already looking for a yarn ball). I plan to give a compliment to a student, then throw him/her the ball, then they need to compliment a friend and throw the ball over.

Hila Aknin

Hi guys. I am teaching English in

Yeshivat Hashomron, Karney Shomron.

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Name: Orith Baidani

School: Manof

This is me crawling out of a cave in the desert. It’s special because I’m normally not comfortable in closed places.

Name: Shani Ben-Aroya

School: Eastern Mediterranean International School

Taken in Japan where I taught. One of my favourite countries.

A photo of you

Hi, I’m Gilat Bental from Neve Hadassah

Laura Berdichevsky - Nofey Habsor

Session Two

Two different activities to get to know your students better

• Using the Linoit app, students can write their names, and add one interesting fact about themselves or something unusual that has ever happened to them.
• Using kahoot, they can write half sentences telling things they like to do. They can write 4 different endings. Only one of them is true, so the class should guess the right one.

For example: I am Laura, on Fridays I like to

a , meet friends b .play basketball c .sleep d listen to music

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Elisheva Baruch Herzog School

This picture isn't special…

I don't like selfies!

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Nicole Georgy

School: Hakfar Hayarok

Preparing myself to do the Side shuffle. Let's dance!

Husam Ganem

Alnahda JHS

hi, my name is Rada Goldfeder. The picture is meaningful to me because it’s taken during a hike in Ireland. This was our first holiday without the kids in 20 years

Yael Ganan

Ulpanat Tsfira

My sweet grandchildren and me on my nephew's bar mitzva.

Name: Sara Garelik School: Ulpenat Tzfira

Inna Donov - Western Galilee High School

The photo is not special because it was made on request.

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Lora walters

Ulpanat meron

This picture is special because I took it with my son and his fiance

Pnina Wolf - Herzog

Name: Galit Vizel School:Maayan Shahar

• This photo is special because bla-bla-bla-bla

Yael Van Der Meer

Yael van der Meer

Eynot Yarden

I hate selfies…

This is taken in the rope park in Kibbutz Sasa

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Leah Weizmann Yeshivat Hashomron

Hey there!

I am teaching in yeshivat

Bnei -Akiva Hashomron.

Name: Bat-El Zaga

School: Ulpenat Even Shmuel

I didn’t succeed in getting into this site via my cell phone, so I don’t have any picture to put in here...

A photo of you

Vered Zusmanovich - Ben Shemen School

This is me celebrating 40

Name: Chagit Ziv

School: Ulpanat Tsfira

Rina Haviv from Ben Shemen

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This picture is special for me because it was taken in my most favorite place

Eyal Hadad

Nria School Sdot Negev

Anna Heifetz Galil Maaravi

It is not special at all

Hi

I am Ravit Chason

I teach in Eynot Yarden school.

This picture was taken in my room in school. Nice to meet you!

Pam Harazi-Kannot

Having a nice lunch with my family

Carniya Yaakov, Kiryat Yearim

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Tom Ifrach -

Neve Hadassah

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My first extension course in English

Merav Cohen

Yarden High School

My holiday in Thailand

Shir Katzman Beit Chinuch Yarkon

שיר כצמן בית חינוך ירקון

Galit Carmeli-Hartuv school

This picture is special because I am

wearing my favorite shirt and I barely have

have any make-up on.

Ayelet Lonweagrt - Kedma

Name: Nicole Look School: Mayan Shachar

This photo is special because bla-bla-bla-bla

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YOANA JABOTINSKY -

We are here to learn together and share our experiences with the rest of our staff at school.

• TANYA MOVSHOVICH

#teamyoana

Name:Varda Morell

School: Ulpanat Tsfira

What is special about this photo?

This is a photo of me and my first granddaughter

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A photo of you

Tzipporah moskovitz

Amit nachshon

2 activities to get to know the students better:

• I would use the cubes for the students to get to know each other better. I would have the students sit in a group of 4. One cube would have questions about the person; for example, hobbies, family, number child in the family, nieces and nephews. The other cube would have points. The students would get points if they have something in common. I would then have the students in group present their findings with the points. I would be an observer here and watch the game and would also join them in their findings by sharing my own. I think this would allow me to watch the students interact with each other and through the answers and the interactions i could get to know them better.
• I really like the yarn idea. I have used this before. I like to have funny questions that i ask the students and then throw it to someone who answers the questions. It allows for a relaxing atmosphere in the classroom. I would observe and interact with the students.

After the game i would have a reflection and see how they enjoyed.

Einav Mahlebani

Tom High school

What is special about this photo? This is me in my 5th pregnancy and I feel blessed with what I have

A photo of you

Yehudit Minerbi

Yeshivat Beit Yehuda

Kfar Maimon

Zara Mamont - Ort Yami Ashdod

From now on this selfie will be specified as Enjoyng JHS pic 😉

Rochelle Mesica Hertzog High School

Rachel (Marin) Tobol School: HaKfar Hayarok

Task 2:

• Each student gets 8 sticky notes which they will label the numbers 1 - 8 in the top right corner. Then they will complete my 8 sentence starters on the notes. For example: the most helpful teachers are the ones who ______ or One of my areas of strength in English class is _________. Then divide the class into 8 groups and they meet at their assigned station. Then they must talk about their responses with the other students in their group.Then post their sticky notes on the wall for that assigned station. They then go through all 8 stations and put their notes on the walls. Then we look at the answers and have a whole class discussion.
• Have students write a letter to you. You can give them a template with some sentence starters or a list of questions you want them to answer, or you can let them free-write. You get to see their writing style and get a quick snapshot of who they are. The letters are also really helpful to read occasionally throughout the year when you are struggling to connect with a student or need some insight into their personalities.

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*I also really love the yarn idea. I really enjoy activities that get the class up and moving around and so I think that will be one that I will do sometime this year even though I know the students. I think it could be a nice way to come back from Hanukkah vacation and talk about what we did over the holiday and solidify are connection.

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David Moshe-Shitim Arava

My name is David and this photo is meaningful because of my beautiful family.

Reut Melker - Nofey Golan

This picture is special, because I took it last year, while I was teaching English in a summer camp in China. I took my son with me, and it was an amazing experience for both of us!

Moshe Na Or

Neve Sraya, Brosh

Shalom, I am happy to be here, and I am hoping to learn new ways of doing it better.

Helwi Najami (on the right) from Misgav JHS

A delicious burger for lunch before

the histalmut 😋

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So happy to see you dear after such

a long time

Natali Svirsky - Ayanoyt

Glad i am here

Gali Sayag Ramat Hadassah

Jane Simon

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This is a picture of my brother and I in Tel Aviv. I only have one brother in Israel and three other siblings abroad,this picture is special because my sister took it. It’s rare that three of us are in the same country at the same time.

Emily Singer

This picture is very special to me because it is the photo on the back of my first published book, a children’s fantasy novel about the story of Hanuka, which went on the market last week.

Shaked Darca School

Hi everyone

I'm Kirill Smolkin

I teach in Jerusalem,

Havat HaNoar HaTsioni

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The pic was taken a couple of days ago in the desert. A very sunny day in November

Zoharit Said- Beer Ami

The first activity- The teacher writes two facts about herself, one fact is true and the second is false. The students need to guess what is the true fact. Then, each student does the same about himself. The teacher instructs the students to write interesting facts that most of the classmates don’t know. He reads the facts out loud and the other students need to guess.

The second activity- the teacher gives each students two flags- one flag is white and the second one is black. The students keep the flags in their bags and use them through the whole year. Every few lessons the teachers starts the lesson by asking them to take out the flags . Then, the teachers asks 4-5 Yes/No questions, for example- "Do you like summer?" or "Do you cook at home?" . The students wave the right flag according to their opinion. This way the teacher gets to know his students better and practice with them the structure of Yes/No questions. The teacher can ask the students to give

The him a list of questions they wrote on their own and he will use them next time.

The third activity (and thanks to Laura Berdichevsky )- Using the Linoit app, students can write their names, and add one interesting fact about themselves or something unusual that has ever happened to them.

Yudit Idan - Ben Shemen School

I’m here after a long day of pedagogical meetings

& teaching, nice to know you all :)

Name:- Sara Akiva - School:- Wizo Nahalal

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I Found this photo in my photo gallery. Nothing special to say about it!!!!

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Naomi Feinmesser

Tzvia Katif

Naty Piperno Landesman-Aloney Itzhak

I’m in the class

Waiting for the kids.

It’s 2 o’clock and I really want the

Kids to move.

Name: Linda Penias

School: Meshutaf Hof HaCarmel

It was taken in a lovely vacation I went to with my husband.

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Hi, I’m Limor Tzeiry from Yeshivat Tzvia Katif

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Dalia Zarfaty- Mikve Israel

Name: Racheli Kastner

School: Ulpanat Tsfira

Glynn Rabin

Shitim Darka High School

I have been teaching for 10 years at Shitim

I have 4 boys and this picture means a lot to me because it is the year we made Aliyah from South Africa

Laura Rudich

Laura Rudich

Yarkon school

Woman

Mother of dragons

Teacher of students

The first of her name

Lea Rozenfeld

I teach in Ulpenat Merkaz Shapira/

This picture is from our photosession in Kiev.

Makes me happy any time I look at it and remember how cute we were a year ago)))

Debbie Roth (on the left) from Misgav JHS

A delicious burger for lunch before

the histalmut 😋

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So happy to see you dear after such

a long time

Nicole Ronen - Hartuv highschool

This picture is special because my eyes are open although I didn't get any sleep 😨😨😨

Also, when I look from afar I resemble my mother 🙄

Yael Ressa - Eshel Hanassi School

The picture is meaningful because it shows I managed to do a digital task

Galina Shaulov Eshel Hanassi School

Name: Chavy Schwartz School: Ulpenat Tzfira

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• AVIV STERN - Yoana

#teamyoana

Elisheva

Faygie Schneider

Amit Nachshon

Hadar Shenkar- Amit Kfar Batya “Homesh”

Hi everyone!

Nice to meet you all :-)

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Channi Shklar

Da’at Kibbutz Sa’ad

Hi, nice to meet you all.

Yael Temam Ohana Hertzog High School Beit Hashmonai

Having fun at the Junior High in service😉

Julia Kfar Hanoar Hadati

Adele School: NHS

This photo is meaningful to me because it was take in preparation to start making tutorials for this inspiring course!

Sandra Keren - Yarden School

Hi everyone, I am really excited about this course! As for this photo it is not special, it is what I had on my phone. 😳

Hayley Wohlfarth

Amit Nachshon

Sohad Khalaily-Rama High School

Melissa Weglein

Hi! Im happy to be in this course with you to share great ideas, and get enthused by your ideas

Zimrat Harband

Ulpenat

Neve Channa in Gush Etzion

Feeling happy and proud on my son’s Bar Mitzvah

Patricia Berenzon - Mikve

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I teach English and I am also the coordinator in JHS at the French Israeli school (Mikve Israel) in Holon. This is my wedding picture and I love it (hubbie asked to be cropped…). Looking forward to be inspiring each other.

Rinat Singer Ezer

Hi,

This picture was taken at school in a partani room.

It is special because it signifies how I enjoy my work

and how much time and effort is required of us, teachers.

Yours,

Rinat Singer Ezer

Hof HaSharon

Eti Hadad Bet Yehude

Hay everyone,

I hope to enrich my lesson

Tammy

Bat-El

Har Tuv High School

This picture was taken at my new

house which I just moved into.

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Session 2 activties to get to know my students better. Yael van der Meer, Eynot Yrden

• The M&M game. Each student takes 2-4 M&M candies in different colors. Then I write on the board a question for each color e.g. red:What is your favorite place?, Green: An English skill you would like to improve etc. Students give their answers and then of course eat their candies…
• I ask each pupil to choose at least 3 of the questions from the previous activity, answer them in writing, add a selfie and send it to me. This enables them to be more open and enables me to see their writing.

And an activity from Zoharit Said (Thank you…)

The teacher writes two facts about herself, one fact is true and the second is false. The students need to guess what is the true fact. Then, each student does the same about himself. The teacher instructs the students to write interesting facts that most of the classmates don’t know. He reads the facts out loud and the other students need to guess.

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