Hebrew Learning for the 21st Century
By Rabbi Stacy Eskovitz Rigler I graduated from Hebrew Union College in the age of possibility. At the turn of the millennium anything was possible for Jewish life. Five years [...]
Teaching as Friendship
By Joel Lurie Grishaver We all know that the Jewish tradition values teachers and teaching. What I intend to this year is look at Jewish sources that can inform our [...]
Interdisciplinary Project Based Learning
by Adam Levine Today, we have the ability to access information that previous generations could hardly fathom. Consequently, the relationship between student and teacher has changed. No longer should the [...]
Jewish Text Engaging with Our Students’ Souls
Students at The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford; courtesy. By Nancy Rosen When asked to share an important lesson from the biblical account of Creation, adults often answer, [...]
LehavinU’Lehaskil: A curriculum that trains our students to become independent readers of Tanach
By Tamar Nusbaum Recently, I attended a two-day conference held at Brandies University, Learning to Read in Jewish Education, to discuss how we as educators can empower and equip our [...]
The Impact of Tefilla Role Models in Tefilla education
By Daniel Rose In the first two articles in this four-part series on tefilla education, possible goals for a program of tefilla education were identified. These were tefilla literacy, tefilla [...]
The Siddur as an Educational Resource for Tefilla education
By Daniel Rose In the first of this four-part series on tefilla education, we identified three possible goals of a program of tefilla education: tefilla literacy, tefilla inspiration (meaning-making and [...]
Tefilla Literacy vs. Tefilla Inspiration: Reevaluating our goals for Tefilla Education
By Daniel Rose When I say the words “tefilla education” what is your visceral instinctive response? Fear and trepidation? Fatigue and resignation? Or excitement and passion for the educational opportunities [...]
Creating a Pedagogical Vision for Tanakh Education
By Ziva R. Hassenfeld This year marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in Jewish education. A few weeks ago, Prizmah, a new organization comprising the five major day [...]
Textmapping the Siddur
By Colin Elizabeth Pier-Silver As you can probably imagine, teaching a Shabbat School class of six students in a small congregation in the Midwest comes with its fair share of [...]
Teaching the Whole Child
By Amanda Pogany To successfully educate the whole child we need to believe that social/emotional development is just as important as cognitive development. That it’s just as important for a [...]
Classroom Management for Jewish Educators
By Shira Loewenstein - If you would walk into my classroom on any given day, you would hear a lot of noise: children debating an idea, questioning another’s decision, or [...]