In response to numerous requests Merkaz L’Chinuch HaTorah is offering a full gamut of summer workshops for rebbeim and moros, and its intensive summer and fall programs for talmidim. Both children and bochurim can improve learning skills, from kriah through Gemara. Rebbeim and moros can acquire new techniques for reaching their talmidim and talmidos at all levels. Especially now in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, students who were struggling even before Covid-19 have lost their support system, and have found themselves falling even further behind and increasingly frustrated by phone or Zoom classes. Mechanchim and mechanchos, while working day and night to keep the momentum of their lessons productive and motivating, nevertheless felt their weaker students slipping further and further from their reach. Mechanchim and talmidim will also benefit from the special techniques utilizing remote learning that have been developed and honed in recent months of remote learning, adapted to the needs and attention levels of those with learning challenges. Merkaz L’Chinuch HaTorah is recommended by esteemed Roshei Yeshiva, including Rav Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg z”tl, and ylb”c, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, shlita, Torah Umesorah, and by principals and rebbeim. The director, Rabbi Reuven Elkins, is a founding member of Torah Umesorah’s Torah Special Educators’ Network, and the author of Unconventional Wisdom: Torah Perspectives on the Child Who Has Difficulty Learning. He gives in-service courses in yeshivas and schools throughout the country, and Masters’ level courses in all areas of literacy, and in second- language dyslexia. For further information: (718) 421-0431 merkazlechinuch@thejnet.com  FOR MECHANCHIM AND MECHANCHOS WORKSHOPS – WEEK OF AUGUST 2, 2020 – Intensive Summer Workshops  Merkaz techniques, suited to mainstream classrooms as well as to one-on-one learning, will be taught to experienced rebbeim and moros at Intensive Workshops to be offered in Brooklyn this summer. This year all workshops will also be available over Zoom.  KRIAH AND LASHON HAKODESH – A Comprehensive Method to Build a Proper Foundation  This workshop covers every area of kriah and Lashon HaKodesh, and its impact on learning, from the early stages through the highest levels of learning. A multitude of teaching methods, learning styles, evaluation tools, and applied remediation techniques are both introduced and practiced during the workshop, and sensitive issues of kriah remediation for older talmidim and talmidos are addressed. Participants describe the courses as “comprehensive, clear” and “user-friendly.” One experienced remediator commented, “Not only in did I learn such a variety of methods and techniques — what is more important, here we were taught how to determine which method will work for which student!” THE THREE TIER METHODOLOGY  Powerful Strategies to Ensure the Success of Every Child in the Mainstream Classroom This workshop addresses the challenge faced by all experienced mechanchim and mechanchos and tutors: How do you build a student’s skills while enabling full participation in his or her mainstream class? The Three Tier Methodology, developed over decades of experience with both mainstream and resource room students, resolves this paradox. By combining a skills program with a unique, text-based mastery program, students can incorporate their newly learned skills into their regular curriculum, with great success. It is effective with curriculums ranging from beginning Chumash to advanced Gemara and meforshim. BUILDING GEMARA SKILLS – The Rav Simcha Wasserman Method  This workshop teaches rebbeim an original, text-based method which enables weaker students to build […]

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