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Charles E. Smith – seems like a perfectly good school, but the 40-45% share of time spent on Judaic studies was too high for us, and the teaching methods involved [b]far too much frontal teaching, [/b]school felt very big, not as much potential for individualized learning methods.

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This is an amazing review.  Thank you for taking the time to summarize a lot of schools that many people don't take a hard look at.  What did you mean by CESJDS has too much frontal teaching?  My DD is there now and I love it for her.  My son has some ADHD issues and I'm not sure this will be the right place for him though.  I'm just starting to look at other options.  I'm sad that the New Jewish School closed.  [/quote]

Thank you, I'm glad this was helpful.

Re frontal teaching -- we visited a number of schools where kids work at stations around the classroom and are often standing or walking around rather than sitting and listening.  For our child the station-to-station approach was preferable because she tends to like to move around when processing information, and she also tends to process when involving her whole body, especially her hands, rather than just listening.  During my CES visit I noted more classrooms that involved the teacher standing at the front of a room speaking to a fairly large class of kids seated at desks all facing the front.  I'm sure this works fine for many kids, but was not optimal for us.  [/quote]

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