Your students got you off topic?
Seize the opportunity.
As their Rebbe or Morah, this is your chance to teach them foundational topics in Yiddishkeit.
Back to Basics, a project of Teach to Reach, shows you how.
You want to… but how?
As a dedicated Rebbe or Morah, you want to give your students the hashkafic fundamentals they need for life. You want to empower them with conviction and passion for Yiddishkeit. You want them to look back at your lessons and use what you taught them as a guide. But these critical topics don’t always slip seamlessly into your Chumash or Gemara shiur.
You have a curriculum to cover. Can you do both?
Back to Basics
A project of Teach to Reach
Back to Basics is here to help mechanchim like you impart these crucial topics into the hearts of your students.
With Back to Basics, you can create a culture of inquiry in your classroom, enabling your students to deepen their understanding of Yiddishkeit and their connection with HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
Our booklet, Back to Basics, will serve as a resource and a means to help you:
Incorporate more hashkafah into your classroom.
Answer students’ questions with confidence.
Build a positive association with these important topics.
It’s the questions they ask and the answers you give that will accompany them for life.
Have any of these questions come up in your classroom?
- “I asked Hashem for something specific, but He didn’t answer me. So what’s the point of davening?”
- “Why does Hashem do bad things to good people?”
- “I’m comfortable with my life; why should I long for Mashiach?”
- “How does bechira work if Hashem knows what I’m going to choose?”
Back to Basics is the guide you needed all along.
Here’s how it works:
- Receive a booklet full of information about fundamental hashkafic topics.
- Peruse the booklet to pinpoint the topics your students ask about most often.
- Choose a topic to introduce to your class during the month of Iyar. Then, for the rest of the year, keep the other topics up your sleeve to use:
- as a Friday activity
- in the last few minutes of a lesson
- as a reward for good behavior
- or whenever you want!
Next time your students try to get you off topic, take the opportunity to instill lifelong lessons in Emunah.
Didn’t find the answer to your student’s question?
Please feel free to submit your list of Frequently Asked Hashkafic Questions for inclusion in a future edition of Back to Basics.
You can even invite your students to submit some anonymously.
Get the Back to Basics booklet.
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