Richard D. Solomon's Blog on Mentoring Jewish Students and Teachers

Our hope is that this blog will become a forum in which people can exchange ideas on how to recruit, develop and retain exceptional Jewish educators through mentoring and e-mentoring students, teaching candidates, and teachers in our day and supplemental schools. The present focus of this blog is to empower Jewish teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, consultants, and staff developers to integrate web technology (i.e. web tools and apps) into their teaching and teacher training.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Three reasons I created this blog

Hi friends and colleagues!

I created this blog for these three reasons:

1. I want to see if there is an interest in creating a new career ladder for Jewish day and supplemental educators beginning in elementary school and extending through graduate school. I am also passionately interested in the creation of a new role for teachers in the day and supplementary school, the mentor teacher who trains students to become Jewish educators.

2. I have spent my entire professional life in secular education teaching students in all grades from two through graduate school.

3. Now I want to devote the next chapter of my life to the recruitment, training and retention of Jewish educators who possess a strong knowledge base in both Judaics and Judaic-specific instructional tools.