Middle Schoolers Learn About Healthy Relationships
As part of Beth Tfiloh Middle School’s ongoing commitment to our students’ social and emotional development, our sixth and eighth grade students participated in separate interactive programs on “Healthy Relationships,” facilitated by Barbi Hyman, RJE, a prevention educator from CHANA. The goal was to provide our children with tools to navigate their interpersonal worlds in a developmentally appropriate manner.
Through a variety of activities, the students explored the characteristics of good friends vs. qualities of an unhealthy relationship; the Jewish values that promote helpful and kind ways to interact with others; guidelines for healthy relationships; and the long lasting and negative impact and residue of hurtful behaviors to/from others, including day to day negative interactions, bullying and cyberbullying; myths about abuse and the types of abuse (8th grade program only); and the permanency of electronic messages and pictures.
Both Middle School social worker Mrs. Vicki Hervitz, as well as CHANA’s facilitator, Barbi Hyman, were impressed with the sixth grader’s thoughts and input, and ability to identify both verbal and physical actions as equally negatively impactful. Mrs. Hyman noted that this was the first time she’d ever seen children make this depth of a connection. Our eighth graders demonstrated openness and understanding of the topics presented, and the ability to identify truly important and meaningful characteristics of healthy relationships vs. unhealthy relationships.
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Through a variety of activities, the students explored the characteristics of good friends vs. qualities of an unhealthy relationship; the Jewish values that promote helpful and kind ways to interact with others; guidelines for healthy relationships; and the long lasting and negative impact and residue of hurtful behaviors to/from others, including day to day negative interactions, bullying and cyberbullying; myths about abuse and the types of abuse (8th grade program only); and the permanency of electronic messages and pictures.
Both Middle School social worker Mrs. Vicki Hervitz, as well as CHANA’s facilitator, Barbi Hyman, were impressed with the sixth grader’s thoughts and input, and ability to identify both verbal and physical actions as equally negatively impactful. Mrs. Hyman noted that this was the first time she’d ever seen children make this depth of a connection. Our eighth graders demonstrated openness and understanding of the topics presented, and the ability to identify truly important and meaningful characteristics of healthy relationships vs. unhealthy relationships.
Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School
Roz & Marvin H. Weiner Family Campus
3300 Old Court Road | Baltimore, MD 21208
410-486-1905 | mail@bethtfiloh.com
3300 Old Court Road | Baltimore, MD 21208
410-486-1905 | mail@bethtfiloh.com
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Baltimore’s only Jewish independent preparatory school serving PreSchool through Grade 12.
Baltimore’s only Jewish independent preparatory school serving PreSchool through Grade 12.
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