A Complex Instruction Unit Prepared by Participants in the Lookstein Center's annual Principals' Seminar, July 2000 Main Concept of the Unit: “Controlling Emotions” This study includes textual analysis of parallel passages in the Torah based on various...
Art and Drama Rubric
The following headings for a rubric were designed for art lessons related to the study of Biblical texts. They were produced by participants of the Principals' Seminar 2000. ART Content Reflects the theme central to the chapter Clarifies reading for the viewer...
Lessons in Bereishit
by Rabbi Stanley Peerless Bereshit (Genesis): Lesson One The origins of life in our world have always intrigued man. It is interesting that observations of the natural world can lead to different conclusions depending on the perspective on which they are based. These...
Multi-Level Instruction: The Matach Program
Our method of dealing with multiple ability levels in the classroom is the creation of homogeneous groupings within the class. In order to accomplish this effectively, the teacher must provide different materials appropriate to each class based on pre-established...
Birkat Kohanim
The following is an example from the Ministry of Education's booklet on Sefer Bamidbar (Numbers) for grade 4. This worksheet presents a number of educational activities for the study of Birkhat Kohanim (the Priestly Blessing). Students can choose to participate in any...
Al Shlosha Devarim
Multiple Intelligence – Examples for Chumash (Bereshit and Shemot) Classes
Introduction The following approach for teaching Chumash has been developed by the “Machon Leintegratzia” at Bar-Ilan University which specializes in producing teaching materials for the religious day schools in Israel. The primary aim of this approach is to help...
Testing and Assessment: An Ecological Approach
Clifford Hill Inaugural Lecture as Arthur I. Gates Professor in Language and Education April 2, 1992 Teachers College, Columbia University © 1992 Clifford Hill. All rights reserved. I would like to welcome friends, former students, and colleagues from various schools,...
When Assessment is Instruction and Instruction is Assessment: Using Rubrics to Promote Thinking and Understanding
Heidi Goodrich Andrade From: The Project Zero Classroom: Views on Understanding, eds. Hetland, Lois and Shirley Veenema. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, 1999. Introduction Rubrics are excellent assessment tools: They make assessing student work quick...
Complex Instruction and Cognitive Development
Adapted from: Working for Equity in Heterogeneous Classrooms: Sociological Theory in Practice, eds. Elizabeth G. Cohen and Rachel A. Lotan. NY: Teachers College Press, c1997. Rachel Ben-Ari Gliker (1982) argued that Greek philosophy began in the port cities, at the...