Meet Our New Teachers
Getting to Know You: New Teachers at TABC
By Eye of the Storm staff
We wanted to find out more about some of our new general studies teachers at TABC, so we asked them some questions that can help us get to know them.
Ms. Chana Shavelson
Ms.Shavelson teaches 9th,10th, and 11th grade English.She received her B.A. cum laude in English and American literature from Harvard College,and her M.A.,also in English literature, from NYU.
We finish the interview. You step outside of the office and find a lottery ticket that ends up winning 10 million dollars. What would you do?
Ms. Shavelson: Try and find out whose ticket it is.
What's the last show you watched on TV/ Netflix?
Ms. Shavelson: Whose Line is it Anyway?
You're hosting a dinner party and must invite 3 famous people. Who are you inviting?
Ms. Shavelson: Kazuo Ishiguro, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Simone Biles
What would you choose as your last meal?
Ms. Shavelson: A box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates and a triple espresso.
Ms. Ayelet Kopel:
Teaches chemistry and physics. She received a Bachelor’s degree from New York University and a Masters in Science Education in chemistry from Queens College. Mrs. Kopel became passionate about teaching after she taught after-school SAT prep classes in different schools throughout New York City. Before coming to TABC, she worked in Francis Lewis High School in Queens, where she taught both honors and non-honors level chemistry.
We finish the interview. You step outside of the office and find a lottery ticket that ends up winning 10 million dollars. What would you do?
Ms. Kopel: 5 mil goes to taxes, 1 mil goes towards my kids' college/grad school funds, 4 mil goes to charity
What's the last show you watched on TV/ Netflix?
Ms. Kopel: Monday night football
You're hosting a dinner party and must invite 3 famous people. Who are you inviting?
Ms. Kopel: dead or alive? Dead: Eddie sedgwick, marie curie, ben franklin
alive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Penn Gilette, Neil Degrassi Tyson
What would you choose as your last meal?
Ms. Kopel: My mom's chicken soup, sushi, Ben and Jerry's ice cream (is that kosher? I'll eat the ice cream first.)
Ms. Sarah Radovici:
Mrs. Sarah Radovici teaches Hebrew. She has a B.A. in Expanded Psychology and Basic Judaic Studies from Bar Ilan University and an M.A. in School Counseling from Montclair State University. Her work in education started at an Israeli school in Nigeria, where she lived for six years while her husband was assigned there. Upon moving to the US, she worked at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center, assisting the nursery school staff and their Israeli students in their transition to life in the USA. More recently, she has worked as a guidance counselor in Englewood and North Haledon, while also teaching Hebrew at SAR and various after school programs. She is fluent in English and Hebrew, and conversant in French. She also understands Yiddish and Romanian. She is excited to share her love for languages (most importantly her native Hebrew) with the students at TABC.
We finish the interview. You step outside of the office and find a lottery ticket that ends up winning 10 million dollars. What would you do?
Ms. Radovici: With a portion of the $10,000 lottery money, I would open up a restaurant where people would be able to eat home cooked meals according to the tradition of their families for the last 100 years. With the other portion of that money, I will support research of subjects close to my heart (like old age issue like Alzheimer and all age issues like Education).
What's the last show you watched on TV/ Netflix? Ms. Radovici: In a section of the restaurant that I will open, people will be able to watch any program they will request, as long as it would be appropriate to be watching in public (I just watched political news on CNN... I know, I know, it sounds boring but it is an important issue that i got to appreciate later in life).
You're hosting a dinner party and must invite 3 famous people. Who are you inviting? Ms. Radovici: And, they will be able to invite anyone they want to join in their table? I would love to invite my Grandparents on either side of my family (whom I have never met), and some other family members (whom I have met in the past but not able to meet again). These are my kind of famous people, that would add warmth, fun, and feeling of belonging (what is Famous anyway ???). What would you choose as your last meal?
Ms. Radovici: And, as long as I am dining with these people mentioned above, I don't really care what I will eat for my last meal... that is of course taking into consideration that I will know it's my last meal...How do you think I would know that???
