Graduate of Revivim’s seventeenth cohort, home-room teacher at Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem as of the 2020-2021 school year

The best decision I ever made in my life was to begin my studies in the Revivim program. All the twists and turns in my life up to then were a kind of miracle. Even today, after four intensive and exhausting years of academic life, with a lot of academic debts still owed as the end of the program approaches, I still stand behind this declaration.

When I reached Revivim, something strange happened. Suddenly the profession of “teacher” became a prestigious one! The same profession that I had until then perceived as something that anyone could do, and about which anyone who was studying and wasn’t sure what to do afterwards could say, “OK, if all else fails, I can always become a teacher” – suddenly this profession became prestigious, demanding a lot of hard work to achieve. The discourse around in Revivim made me feel that in order to become a teacher, I had to be as excellent as possible and continue to aim high. And precisely this strange scenario, in which the increased status of teachers slowly became the norm, came about thanks to Revivim.

 

There are all sorts of programs in Israel that prepare teachers, but to my knowledge, there is no program like Revivim, which takes its “teaching blooms” the most seriously, demanding hard work, a high degree of professionalism in their teaching, and of course also in the content in which they become professionals (have I already mentioned the MA?). I am so very proud to be a graduate of the program and am convinced that the hard work all along the way really paid off. Not only because I became the best possible teacher I could be (within the limits, of course, of a teacher just starting out), Revivim changed my perception of this profession thanks to its demands.

In short, whether you choose Revivim or not, how very fortunate it is that this program exists and can perhaps help change the world and rehabilitate the misguided perception about the teaching profession.