Rabbi Eli Zians is the Director of Jewish & Student Life for grades K-8 at Brauser Maimonides Academy in Hollywood, FL, and he teaches middle school. He is the Teen Director for the Boca Raton Synagogue and the former Director for NCSY’s JOLT Summer Program where he led high school groups through Poland, Germany/Austria and Israel for the past 8 years. Eli also served as Program Director for the Ronald Lauder Foundation throughout central Europe where he ran numerous Pesach, winter and summer programs for Russian immigrants living in Germany. He has since opened his own summer day camp, Camp Shemesh, in Boca Raton, FL.
Gems:
- Find a way to get students engaged.
- Expose children to the concept of G-d and the different names of G-d.
- Train yourself to look at what the message could be.
- Education is giving over something to the child that will last with them long-term.
- Be creative in the classroom.
- Find new ways to help your students learn the material.
- Create memories.
- Take time to reflect and reassess.
- Pace yourself.
- Things will work out with time.
- Be adaptable.
- Be humble and admit when you make a mistake.
- Must be level of consistency and open communication between school and parents.
- You don’t always need to recreate the wheel.
*Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira– Chovas haTalmidim
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