Meet Our Teachers for the New School Year
Freda R. Thrower
We are delighted to wel
come a new staff member
to the Char
lotte Jewish
Day School.
Freda Thrower
comes from
Ahoskie, N.C.:
She has a B.S. i
in Early Child
hood Educa-1
tion from East!
Carolina Uni- Thrower
versity. She also has her K-12
Reading Certificate from East
Carolina University. As she
continued her career, she pur
sued and received her M.A. in
Elementary Education also
from ECU.
Her teaching experience has
been in Northeastern North
Carolina. She has taught first
and second grades as a com
bined unit. She has also worked
with fourth and fifth grades
as a specialist in Reading with
the children. She has in all her
years done a lot of substitute
work from first through ninth
grades at various school sys
tems. Freda has a good overall
feeling for teaching the vari
ous grade levels and seems to
really enjoy her elementary
age school children.
Being the mother of three
sons, Freda feels that every
child deserves the opportuni
ty to have the best education
possible. “In my classroom, I
strive to provide a strong pro
gram in basic education. In
corporated in this are other
areas of study which help to
develop a well rounded, happy
child. I feel it is essential to
work with each student indi
vidually and to provide a
course of study designed for
his/her own level and pace.”
We welcome Freda to our
school and also to the city of
Charlotte.
Helen Bronson
Helen Bronson brings to the
Jewish Day School the benefit
of many years
of elementary
teaching ex
perience in the
Miami, Flor
ida public
schools. As
the mother of
six children,
she also brings
a highly de-
Bronson
veloped sense of how to ap
proach the needs of the in
dividual child. Of her own ap
proach to education, Mrs.
Bronson states, “Education is
a nurturing profession. As did
Froebel, I believe that the
teacher should strive to be a
model for the student. Mutual
respect and concern for others
should pervade the atmos
phere of the classroom. The
dignity of the student should
be such that a child feels com
fortable in his relationships
with his teacher and peers. As
I begin each day, I remind
myself that ‘a good teacher
should give children a lifelong
love of learning.’ ”
Berta Straz
Berta Straz provides the
younger Jewish Day School
students with
their initial
contact in an
academic set
ting with the
Hebrew lang
uage and with
Judaic stud
ies. Her stu
dents le8u*n to 1
read and write Straz
Hebrew and to engage in sim
ple conversations. They leeirn
the historic background and
the traditions of Jewish holi
day observemce, as well as ex
periencing the joy of cele
brating these events through
dance, drama and song. Bible
stories also come alive
through her creative use of the
arts £md her encouragement of
her students’ self-expression.
Mrs. Straz states, “I at
tempt to teach the basic
religious principles in a very
relaxed and positive learning
environment. Judaism has so
much spirit to offer; I believe
that the concepts stay alive
with the children. The most
important goal of all is to help
the children start to under
stand what their Jewish iden
tity is all about.”
Ziva London
The Jewish Day School is
most fortunate to have had
Ziva London!
on the faculty
for the past
seven years.
A native
speaker of
Hebrew, she
not only pro
vides an excel
lent conversa
tional Hebrew
program for the upper grades,
but she also gives the students
an extensive background in
Torah, history and the works of
the prophets and scholars. Her
approach to teaching Judaic
thought is to relate Jewish
ethics to events in the daily lives
of her students, so that they
may use the teachings of the
fathers to create a framework
for their own decision making.
Mrs. London also teaches her
students the academic skill of
researching the literature on a
subject to arrive at an answer to
a problem. By the sixth grade,
Jewish Day &hool students can
read and understand Torah
passages and prayers in
Hebrew, as well as conduct
grammatically correct basic con
versations in modern dialect.
For further information,
please call Berta Straz,
366-5007, or Roslyn Gordon,
847-4557.
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