Professional Development – Morah Chaya Shapiro

Professional development and coaching for teachers who care.

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Creating a Caring and Connected Classroom; in the Room or on Zoom.

One-on-one Coaching

Bring your teaching to the next level.

Feeling uninspired in your classroom or struggling to get through the day?
Need help with lesson planning and classroom management?
Are you looking to elevate your teaching and gain valuable skills?
Morah Chaya Shapiro is now offering one on one mentoring and coaching guaranteed to bring your teaching to the next level.

About Chaya Shapiro

Morah Chaya is a graduate of the Toronto Seminary, where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in humanities. She has more than 25 years of early childhood classroom experience and currently serves as the Director of Professional Development at Torah Academy for Girls in Far Rockaway, NY.

Morah Chaya’s warm, supportive style and ability to identify and utilize the strengths of each individual student consistently earns her accolades from parents and teachers alike. Through the use of differentiated instruction she has built a reputation as a teacher’s teacher, whose classroom lessons serve as role models for preschool teachers worldwide.

Workshops

Session 1: Seeing your students in 3D

In this workshop, teachers will learn the skills of addressing problematic behavior in the classroom by utilizing Morah Chaya’s 3D method. Difficult moments will turn into teachable moments.

Session 2: A Dollar and a Dream - Creating Classroom Games and Activities on a Budget

Join Morah Chaya on a creative journey in how to use dollar store and household items to create fun and enriching activities for your preschool students. Through these games and activities, your students will be engaged, having fun and, most of all, learning.

Session 3: The Magic of Multi Sensory teaching in Preschool

Using multisensory techniques—such as incorporating visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic components into lessons, and finding sensory modalities through which students learn best—teachers will learn how to maximize students’ classroom experiences.

Session 4: A Practical Guide for “All In” Teaching

Learn the triple As of “All In” teaching and how to become fully engaged and immersed in your craft. Morah Chaya will inspire participants to reconnect with their internal motivation and passion to be an “All In” teacher and provide practical strategies for every part of the day, as well as effective solutions for common and uncommon challenges.

Session 5: Creating a Caring and Connected Classroom; in the Room or on Zoom

For students to successfully learn they must first feel a connection with their teacher. This session will explore teaching methods that promote building connections as well as techniques to engage every student. Learn these practical strategies and how they can be implemented both in the room and on Zoom.

Session 6: Ten Tips for a Connected Class

In this session you will gain hands on practical strategies that you can use in your classroom tomorrow. This will change the culture to one of caring and connection where you’re students will be ready to learn and grow.

Session 7: Building a Classroom Family

In this 4 part series, learn to build a classroom family through experiencing it yourself. You will learn to create an emotionally safe environment filled with connections and clear expectations where students will have an optimal learning experience. Get ready to experience a fun and connected learning environment that will provide you with classroom strategies, ideas and inspiration to unite your students and fellow teachers!

Session 8: Parsha Plus

Activities to engage all your students. Learn practical tips, tricks and tools to bring your parsha lessons to the next level.

Join Morah Chaya in this 2 part series and learn some of her favorite ways to enhance Parsha.

Part 1 - Bereishis / Shmos
Part 2 - Vayikra / Bamidbar

Clients

Morah Chaya has been a featured presenter for the Consortium of Jewish Day Schools and the Torah Umesorah National Convention and is a sought-after facilitator for preschool professional development programs.

Eitz Chaim Schools - Toronto ON

"We had the pleasure of hearing from Morah Chaya Shapiro, who passionately delivered hands-on, practical ideas that help teachers make every child in her class feel special, unique, and most of all -- loved. Morah Chaya shared with us some tried-and-true approaches in how to best reach every type of learner. She reminded us that teachers have the power to build a trusting and caring relationship with their students that can enable them to achieve and reach their full potential.”

Chanie Nemes, Torah Academy of New Orleans, Louisiana

"Chaya Shapiro, a veteran Kindergarten teacher, was knowledgeable, professional and on top of her game!

Our Torah Academy staff was very excited about her workshop and we received such enthusiastic feedback. Teachers felt prepared to take on the new year with all the new tools they received. Some of our teachers went straight from the workshop to the classroom to make some changes and additions based on what they had just learned!”

Avrohom S. Moller, Associated Talmud Torahs

"Morah Chaya Shapiro was a featured speaker at our recent Teachers Conference Day in February. This conference brings together Chicago’s teachers from all of our affiliated schools. Morah Chaya presented on “Reaching and Teaching Every Student – Even the ones that Seem Unreachable” and “Multisensory Teaching in Preschool” to a large audience and she received rave reviews. Here are some of the comments on the evaluations: “She was amazing!”, “Great ideas!”,“Fantastic workshop!”,“Enjoyed this session!”. We got many enthusiastic comments verbally from teachers and administrators as well. Thank you, Morah Chaya for a most engaging day of learning!"