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I wish my high school experience was a better one. I went to what’s considered a really wonderful frum school, and my teachers were great, but I was pretty much not stimulated or inspired. I have a dream to open a frum girl’s high school where girls like me, who are smart and very creative, can learn Torah through the arts (with the student base mostly being girls who would attend Bais Yaakov schools.)I’m really interested in your ideas or opinions about this.
Explain please. How does one teach Torah through the arts? It sounds like you want to make preschool projects with teenagers.
You could probably do that for certain classes to demonstrate certain points, like have a typical chumash class and then when learning about sefer shmuel, for the test, the girls would have to build their own replica of the ark that held the ten commandments in it and then be assessed on what parts are there/ missing.
What kind of arts…fine arts, domestic arts (…martial arts?)?
culinary arts? make me some cookies!
that would be good for a kashrus class and hilchos shabbos class.
little miss: I am a very artistic person, and I always wished that my high school had offered more in the way of art – but I don’t think what you are describing would be a good idea. Extensively hands-on teaching works for pre-school classes, because the ideas being transmitted are simple and generally easily represented with pictures, etc. In higher grades, the ideas can be much more complex and abstract, and needs to be taught in a formal, straightforward fashion.
However, artistic ability lets you harness another powerful learning tool – visual processing. In school, I always took notes in a very visually structured format, and used diagrams instead of words whenever I could. This was actually crucial for me, because I always found that I could only really understand a concept when I could mentally visualize its structure. I feel that this is the best avenue toward harnessing each student’s individual talents – not trying to transplant them into the classroom, but trying to configure them so as to best adapt to mainstream higher level teaching (lecture/dictation).
I am in a very unique seminary program, so I am being exposed to a variety of different teaching methods. But also, you could have different types of Halacha, such as medical halacha, computer arts classes, where you teach the girls how to use photoshop, which can be vital in order to get a parnossa as a graphic designer…
thats a really great idea except theres alredy a new school like this called bnos yaakov in brooklyn!! i was guna go thr but decided not to for the reason that i like tests muuch better than making stuff.. for ex they make rollercoasters and do tonz of projects for every teacher instead of tests… they only get tested three times a yr and r trying to not hav to take regents..
noo its BNOS yaakov and this is its first yr w a whole skool… like its 4th yr.. http://www.bnosyaakov.org/curriculum.19-0-13.html check out their website it describes the curriculum:) they x have a building yet so theyr on the 6th floor of bais yaakov of boro park..
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