In the 1990s, school reformers hailed block scheduling (modular scheduling), claiming that it created a framework for more in-depth study in the classroom which aided student achievement. As increasing numbers of schools began adopting block scheduling, however, the...
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Grades: Activity The focus of this page is the work of Nechama Leibowitz, one of the most influential teachers of Torah in the last generation. Information is excerpted from To Study and To Teach: The Methodology of Nechama Leibowitz by Shmuel Peerless (Lookstein...
Teaching Jewish Texts: Authority and Relevance Abstract: Most Judaic learning, especially past the primary grades, is text-based. As people who study texts, we have preconceptions about those texts, which define our relationship to them. When we enter a...
I In the Spring 1991 issue of Ten Da'at, Avishai David took a bold step forward by opening for us the thorny issue of teaching about the Avot and Imahot here. Indeed, we owe him gratitude for his insights and thoughts. As the editor's prefatory note indicates,...
This article originally appeared in Jewish Education 54:4 (Winter 1986), p.27-38. Reprinted here with permission. This essay discusses the major findings of a study of how Jewish history is taught in modern Orthodox yeshivah high schools. [1] The researcher examined...
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45 minutes Grades:9-12 Lesson Plan Students learn about the importance of Shabbat in Judaism by analyzing the literary structure of Bereshit 1-2:3. Even though the creation narrative is split into two chapters, it is still one literary unit. The seventh day – a day of...
