In 2012, a team of curriculum specialists at The Lookstein Center were approached by a large Jewish day school. The school felt that the content of their existing curriculum was not adequately fulfilling its educational…
What Should I Have Learned as a Jew After 12 Years in a Jewish School?
Eli Kohn (eli@lookstein.org) is the Director of Curriculum Development Projects at The Lookstein Center of Jewish Education. In this role he was worked with teachers and schools in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, South Africa, and the United States. He...
A Case Study in Commitment
Eli Kohn is Director of Curriculum Development at The Lookstein Center, where he consults and lectures in Jewish studies curriculum theory and practice in day schools and communities throughout the world. Since May 2007, Rabbi Dr. Kohn has also been the Educational...
Formulating a Curriculum Framework for Torah Study
Published in Ten Da’at XIX (January 2007). Appears here with permission. Introduction During the last ten years we have had the privilege to develop Jewish Studies curriculum for day schools throughout the Jewish world. This work has been done under the auspices of...
Study Session
Rabbi Dr Eli Kohn serves as Director of Curriculum Development at the Lookstein Center. Read the accompanying article, "Linking Jewish Educators in Israel and Britain through Video-Conference Technology." 9.30am 10.30am - Learn the Unit The study session should focus...
Linking Jewish Educators in Israel and Britain through Video-Conference Technology
Rabbi Dr Eli Kohn serves as Director of Curriculum Development at the Lookstein Center. A sample study session outline accompanies this article. It's 9:30am Sunday morning. A group of intrepid senior Jewish Studies teachers from days schools throughout London, dare...
Review of New Educational Materials
Eli Kohn is the director of the Lookstein Center's curriculum development programs. This review of educational materials will focus on recent resources that have been developed for the teaching of halakhah in elementary schools in Israel. Although these materials have...
Review of New Educational Materials
1.The “Avot, Melakhim and Neviim” Tanakh Series This new series, written for middle and high school students in the Israel non-religious State school system, includes four student workbooks and four accompanying teacher's manuals on central themes in the Tanakh. Each...
Curriculum Development in Jewish Day Schools- How Can We Make it Work?
The Problem On my frequent visits to Jewish day schools, mainly in the English-speaking world, I am struck by an almost universal problem in these countries – the lack of a professionally written, systematic curriculum in Jewish Studies. I base myself, in particular,...
Review of New Educational Materials
Tanakh with Friends The “Tanakh With Friends” series includes five student workbooks on Bereishit (Bereishit Im Haverim), Shemot – Vayikra, Bemidbar – Devarim, Yehoshua, and Shoftim. The text is designed for students at the elementary school level. The workbooks...