Helping CITs and Teaching Assistants navigate a new setting
Our program for counselors-in-training (CITs) and teaching assistants (TAs) in Jewish contexts helps guide future staff members through eight essential conversations regarding their role in promoting the wellbeing and emotional development of children.
The program gives any supervisor of CITs or TAs an easy-to-use curriculum that covers topics including empathic listening, communication, gender codes, peer pressure, setting boundaries, giving feedback, consent, and the role of mentorship. For each session there are guides to designing conversations around the topic, personal explorations for staff to consider, and multiple ways to explore Jewish values connected to the underlying issues. The program is designed so that even if you have only 45-60 minute time slots with a small group, you can engage them in a meaningful professional development experience that will support their emotional wellbeing and support them in caring for children.
Ready to take the next step?
Still have questions? Schedule a tour of our Curriculum Portal with one of our Regional Directors. Or, if you’re ready to become a partner, get started on the application.
How it works:
Moving Traditions will train any staff using or supervising the program with a one-hour orientation, give them online access to the curriculum portal (the portal allows you to construct your own session and has built in cut and paste functions), and provide your organization with ongoing support as needed. We also ask all partners to speak with us after they have trained their staff and seen the impact so that we both can learn from the experience and refine the curriculum for future users.
CIT/TA Program Objectives
Participants will . . .
- Feel better prepared to provide guidance, care and mentorship in their role as CIT/TA
- Develop communication skills including how to speak up, actively listen, and give feedback
- Increase and practice skills in de-escalating conflict and boundary-setting
- Understand when to handle a situation and when to ask for help
- Actively participate and share their thoughts with the group
- Better understand the social emotional lives of the children with whom they will be working
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Your gift to Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth to thrive through the pursuit of personal wellbeing (shleimut), caring relationships (hesed), and a Jewish and feminist vision of equity and justice (tzedek).