Educational Concept
The Youth Village’s motto is “I Believe”, which is based on the worldview that education and learning are the primary and most important paths to social leadership, personal development and taking responsibility as active and valuable citizens in Israeli society.
We believe that obtaining a Theoretical/Technological Secondary Educational Certificate, as well as internalizing the values of personal excellence, social responsibility, investment, and perseverance are important keys to future success. Everyone can use their life to achieve success in any area of life.
How will we achieve this?
- Establishing personal contact and building relationships based on trust and faith in each student.
- Encouraging individual and group work, striving for improvement, explaining the value of education, providing accurate and personalized academic, emotional, and social support.
- The youth village has an educational center that personally helps each student to close educational gaps and consolidate material needed for certificate exams and intermediate tests.
- The Hadassah Neurim School offers a number of majors that combine formal learning with practical experience: robotics, agricultural sciences (specialization: animals and plant nurseries), information and databases, movie making, Russian language and literature, biology (a new major).
Social education as a value in our school
This year we will continue to teach social education at school and provide social support. Social education generates debate about the relationship between the individual and society and promotes actions that strengthen social cohesion, while explaining concepts such as collective responsibility, volunteering, and social justice.
The mission of social education is to help adolescents discover their personal and social identities, explore their values and how they apply to reality, and to strengthen their sense of belonging to the class, school, community, and the State of Israel. In our school we will learn and apply ways to develop emotional, social and value skills in various life situations within everyday life and in situations of risk, we will promote learning that emphasizes the experience and internalization of village values, as well as the values of human dignity, mutual guarantees, sanctity of life, justice, tolerance, responsibility, personal involvement, and leadership.
In addition, we will teach students to develop social abilities and skills while increasing their sense of belonging and involvement in the peer group and community in which they live. This will help students build and develop a scale of values for themselves that will enable them to make healthy decisions in a variety of life situations and will contribute to their social and moral growth. For example: volunteering and contributing to society and encouraging the fulfillment of social tasks and roles. We will promote a cultural Jewish identity based on cultural pluralism. We will strengthen identification with the values of the State of Israel as a Jewish-democratic state.
Social-emotional support program at school
The school has a “Strengths on the Path” program. It is designed to develop and practice students’ emotional and social skills. Comprehensive research in this area shows that acquiring and practicing these skills contributes to students’ mental well-being and their ability to develop and succeed in various areas of life:, including emotional, social, and academic.
The “Strengths on the Path” program also helps students to cope optimally with various life situations, life challenges and even risky situations depending on their developmental stage. The program touches the students’ world and allows them to look within themselves, increase their awareness, understand others, and create meaningful and positive interpersonal relationships.
It highlights their inherent strengths and abilities, as well as their ability to face life’s challenges and even use them to grow. The program examines various life models in routine and stressful, risky, emergency and crisis situations. As part of the program, students receive weekly life skills lessons, master classes and lectures from various experts.
The school’s policy is to provide each student an individual learning path, adapted as closely as possible to their needs, rate of progress and natural talent. School staff motivate their students to pass the full course for the matriculation certificate to maximize the opportunities available to them in adulthood. Students who decided not to take the full matriculation program are given an equal opportunity to specialize in other areas in which they are more successful, in combination with the partial matriculation certificate.
We view the acquisition of a lifelong profession as an important goal for leadership in Israeli society and integration into the future Israeli labor market and are working to adapt a professional training course and professional certificates for students who choose this course towards the end of their studies.
