86: Teaching Your Child to Know Themselves and Think for Themselves with Esty Freund

Esty Freund is an educator with over a decade of experience in Kiruv and she is closing in on her eighth year in Jewish education. She has dedicated herself to teaching the next generation of Jewish women and mothers. Her career has taken her from serving as an assistant and teacher at HALB, (The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY) to teaching for CAHAL, (Communities Acting to Heighten Awareness and Learning), geared towards children with learning differences, and now at Shulamith, also in NY. Throughout these roles, Esty has consistently focused on nurturing and inspiring her students to develop a deep love and trust in Hashem. With a
Master's degree in both special and general education, as well as training in
the Nurtured Heart Approach, she has developed a unique skill set that enables her
to effectively reach and support diverse learners. Esty has a passion for
Jewish education and a commitment to ongoing learning and growth which has
earned her a reputation as a highly regarded educator within the Jewish
education community.

 Gems:

• Be grateful for the opportunity to teach.
• Share your excitement with your students.
• We are teaching the next generation of Jews.
• Be Ok with admitting when you don’t have the answer.
• Encourage children to ask questions.
• Bring Hashem into everything.
• The Torah is our manual for life.
• Every child needs something different, take the time to find out their needs.
• Teach children to know themselves, think for themselves, and guide them to deal with their own problems.
• Each person has their own path and mission and their own way of learning.
• Learn to work with what you have.
• It’s not always about the quantity of information you’re giving over to your students. 
• You’re teaching people, not material.
• Be flexible.
• Include peer-to-peer learning and find other ways to assess how children are learning.

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