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NEWS
Ezer MiZion Expands a Beitar Illit Program
By Yechiel Sever
At a special event held at the Beitar Illit Matnas and attended by dozens of principals and educators a new book for education professionals aimed at providing tools to developing tangible learning abilities in young children was released to the public.
During the event the book, called Lachush, Lanua Veligdol, was given out to dozens of melamdim taking part in the Chatzer Pe'ila ("Active Schoolyard") program, which has been operating for over a year at the city's educational institutions for young children, with professional guidance by Ezer MiZion and in cooperation with the Municipal Education Department.
The program, which is based on the view that sensory-motor activity plays a central role in child development, melamdim participate in courses that provide them with knowledge and skills to boost their ability to identify difficulties and problems among children who perform poorly through sensory-motor games and to encourage the child to study through indirect means.
Ezer MiZion Director Rabbi Chananya Chollek, who was a guest at the event, said that in past years, before these methods had been developed and implemented at educational institutions, when a child was having trouble in his studies or classroom behavior he would be punished by the rebbe, and if the punishment proved ineffective he would be given a stiffer punishment until eventually he found himself expelled from all learning frameworks. This project, explained Rabbi Chollek, is intended to set guide posts and to provide melamdim with the professional tools needed to save youngsters before it is too late, and to put them on the right track to help them flourish.
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