The Jewish Education Experience Podcast
74: Finding What Resonates With Your Students with Goldie Plotkin
Goldie Plotkin, a native New Yorker, is a Rebbetzin and Shlucha (Chabad emissary) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Together with her husband, Rabbi Avrohom Plotkin, they run a vibrant and successful Synagogue and Chabad House. She has been the director of Torah Tots preschool for 35 years and is the Executive Director of Tamim Academy. Goldie presented the Keynote address at the Chabad Annual convention in NYC, the largest gathering of Jewish Women in the world. Goldie was also invited to address the Knesset on matters of Marriage Enrichment and coaching young couples in Israel. Goldie sits on the board of the International Shluchos Convention. Goldie is on the Shluchos board since 1990 to coordinate the Kinus Hashluchos convention. Goldie has also been a presenter at the JLI Retreats held every summer for over 1,200 people. As a highly sought-after motivational speaker and lecturer, Goldie travels the world to motivate, inspire and share the joy of marriage, relationships, parenting and the beauty of our Jewish traditions.
Gems:
- Every Jew is loved, accepted, and welcomed.
- Labels are for clothing, not for Jews.
- Learn to see the wholesomeness and G-dliness in each human being.
- Each one of us has to celebrate who we are.
- Children are innately spiritual.
- Children naturally want to grow in their Yiddishkeit.
- Figure out what resonates with your students.
- Use all of the senses with teaching.
- When teachers internalize their own learning and teach with passion, students will be inspired to learn also.
- Look for those chinuch moments.
- Home and school must be on the same page.
- Bring Torah into your own life.
- Find a mentor.
- Be open to new things.
- Lead by example.
- Jewish education needs the support of the whole community.
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