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Like a fish out of water !? I would like to share with you a part of my up growing as young girl.             Just to give some background, my mother is Israeli and my father is British. Therefore, my father spoke with my two sisters and me in English but my mother spoke with us in Hebrew. That way, we were exposed to both languages since we were born. I was born in London and was raised there up to the age of five. I loved London, my friends and my house. When I was five years old, my parents decided to move to Israel, and so we did. We moved to Ra'anana. Because of my love for London, I found my first year in Israel hard.  I found it difficult to adjust to the Israeli culture, and I was unhappy to become part of it. I avoided speaking Hebrew for nearly a year, although I knew it fluently. Moreover, because of differences in eating manners, I did not agree to eat in my new kindergarten for a few months. However, thanks to many other Anglo Saxons in my kindergarten and in my

When people ask me from what age I started my education career my answer is from age 15. Back in 9 th grade, I was a counselor in my youth group, which was is called 'Ariel'. Being a counselor gave me experience in creating interactive activities, leading the group through an activity and building personal relationships. It was hard work but very rewarding and fun. One experience led to the next and I found myself being involved in different educational projects. I lead different seminars, volunteered with students whothat came from families in need and came up with different initiatives in my school. When I had to pick what to do for my national service, it was clear to me that I wanted to teach in a school. I taught in six6 different schools In Dimona about Judaism and values. For my  second year of my national service I flew overseas to Saint Louis. I taught in different schools and programs about Judaism and Zionism. At this point in my life it was clear to me that

English Music when I was in elementary school, my sister often listened to English songs. We all enjoyed it though I especially loved David Bowie's music. I used to listen to his music at every opportunity that I had and wanted to understand every single word in English that appeared in the songs. I fell in love with the language and started to explore it throughout my childhood. Today, when I teach english, I always tell my pupils to listen and enjoy English songs, to search for words that they don't know and even play the songs again and again and sing along. I am proud to say that they share with me their favorite songs, bring them to class and listem to them during their breaks. I must also remark that my love to music has passed to all my children and they listen to English music on a regular basis. As a result, they all have a wonderful vocabulary, they speak fluently and they spread their love for English music everywhere.

  Teachers are well aware of the challenges and hardships in trying teach a class of verious level of understanding and skills It is especially hard to teach a language to a class where different  .students have mastered the language at different level       Take, for example, an average fourth grade class: some kids    are reading fluently, some are saying  .full sentences in English and some barely recognize the A B C 's The kids who are struggling and cannot follow the lesson tend to disrupt  the class, which makes it hard to teach the brighter, motivated students To deal with this problem my school has instituted a system problem to minimize this phenomena In the younger grade when we first introduce our students to the English language and to the basics of reading we have two teachers simultaneously in the classroom One teacher teaches the majority of the students while the second teacher focuses on the weaker students There is also a lot of interactive lea

I have always known that I would be a teacher. People around me have always thought I should choose this path. The problem is that when people put tags on me, I immediately tend to rebel against them.  I did not want to fulfill other people's expectations. During my studies, I have taught in junior high school and high school. Later on, I worked as a teaching assistant and as a Hebrew teacher for overseas students. However, I kept feeling that I was missing something and that this type of job was too conventional for me. I had bigger dreams. I was looking for excitement and wanted to do something meaningful. The idea was to make a difference and not to be dragged into a bourgeois life. As I grew up in a home where political discussions have been a part of my daily life, I ended up working in the jungle of Israeli politics. After several years, I realized that although there might have been  excitement in my life, my work didn’t have any real impact, except for taking ca