“If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.*”

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Jill Kohl

Purple Kindergarten

I teach:

in the Purple Kindergarten.

I have been at Akiba-Schechter since:

1996

Education/degrees:

M.A. in Elementary Education, National Louis University

I like to teach because:

Kindergarten is the bridge between the pre-school and the grade school. It is a year filled with so much growth: socially, emotionally and academically. It is also a time when parents still drop off their child in the classroom, and a parent/teacher relationship can be nurtured as well.

My favorite part of teaching is:

Being with the children, working with them as a group and individually. Together we learn something new each day and from each other.

I became a teacher because:

I wanted to work with children, help foster their love for learning and bring laughter, warmth and joy into a classroom.

I'm known by my students for:

Lots of singing, dancing and playing board games.

When I'm not teaching, I

Am spending time with my family. We love to be outdoors. We also love to travel to see family and take adventures to new places. I have a collection of instruments from around the world that my students enjoy.

*Attributed to John Lubbock in Teachers Have Class: A Tribute, by Armand Eisen, edited by Mary Rodarte. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001.