because we’ve seen that early experiences of educational success pave the way for smoother learning and social success in the future. We offer a variety of academic resources to fit different students’ needs. Whether a child can benefit from our Learning Center or needs more specialized guidance in adjusting to school, we can help. We also encourage parents to ask us about our referral program, in which we help navigate the process of professionally evaluating one’s child to identify if any learning disabilities are hampering his or her academic success. While other organizations provide tutoring and mentoring programs, Hakshiva remains unique as the only service that incorporates a comprehensive, holistic approach of working together with parents, teachers and other professionals in order to help them guide a child towards reaching his or her academic potential.
Our learning center was established almost 10 years ago as a “homework center” with students receiving focused educational assistance. Due to necessity and demand, over time the center turned into a multi-focus learning center.
Many children find it a challenge to study at home, for a variety of reasons. The Hakshiva Learning Center is an answer to that problem, providing a warm, friendly and fun environment where students can come to study and complete their homework. In the center each participating child is assigned a tutor. All tutors are trained instructors with relevant educational degrees. Every student meets with their tutor twice a week after school for 45 minutes in a welcoming, quiet atmosphere. The staff of the Learning Center communicate directly with the child’s school and teacher(s), ensuring that the tutor has a full understanding of the topics or study skills each student is struggling with. Since the Learning Center’s opening, scores of elementary school children have benefited from its services, learning effective study skills and receiving personalized homework assistance and test preparation in their most challenging subjects. The feedback from students, parents and teachers has been overwhelmingly positive. Individualized attention and guidance are the keys that unlock academic success for so many children, and our goal is to ensure that homework facilitates success rather than prevents it.
Elementary school students come to the Hakshiva building twice a week in the afternoons. A remedial teacher is assigned to each student, and together with a professional educational guide, builds an individual work program specifically for each student, one that not only addresses the educational needs of the student, but will also optimize his/her integration into the classroom. The teacher is in frequent contact with the parents and the school staff, and is fully dedicated to the student’s success.
The feedback received and the constant ongoing student registration only attests to the Center’s success.
In addition to our Hakshiva learning center, we have received numerous requests from the leading local schools to operate a professional learning enter on school premises and during school hours. The ongoing cooperation between our staff and the school educational staff has been excellent, and there are over 100 students benefitting from these programs.
Each program has its own unique ‘touch” developed to give each school an individual response to its specific needs. A highlight of the program is the work done with the new “olim” (first or second year, and later years as well). When a new family registers in a school, most of them automatically also have the family register for our learning center.
The remedial teachers not only provide top quality educational assistance, but also a warm and supporting environment for the whole family. Parents and students passing through our center in their first years in Israel don’t know what how they would have managed without being supported by Hakshiva’s learning center.
Learning disabilities that go undetected or untreated can put a child at risk academically, socially, and emotionally. Psychodidactic testing can help identify a child’s learning disabilities and make appropriate recommendations for addressing them so that each child can have all the necessary tools for him/her to succeed academically. Children who are diagnosed with learning issues may be eligible for classroom, assignment, and examination accommodations in order to ensure they earn equal access to the learning environment as their peers. While many parents may sense that their child is struggling academically, they often don’t know how to find the right person to assess their child. Hakshiva has established a referral program to help parents understand the testing process and locate the best professional to test their child. Our goal is to help direct each child to the best help he/she can have.
The homework center not only made it easier for my daughter to do well in school it also gave her the confidence in recognizing she can succeed academically. It now takes her less time to do homework and she is much more comfortable with it. This has relieved a tremendous amount of stress that permeated our home at homework time. Thanks for everything you have done for my daughter, for me and our whole family!
S.G, parent of a learning center Participant
