By Semadar Goldstein "It's not how smart you are, it's how you are smart." - Howard Gardner In 1983, Howard Gardner presented a breakthrough educational theory that argued that intelligence is multi-faceted. Traditionally, a “smart” child was one with strong reading,...
General Block Scheduling Block Scheduling: A Solution or A Problem? (Education World) What's Wrong with the Traditional Six- or Seven- Period Day? (Eric Digest) Popular Reform Draws Mixed Reviews (The Christian Science Monitor) Scheduling Resources (a comprehensive...
A larger block of time with students allows the teacher to use varied and interactive teaching methods, including project-based learning and webquests.
Research on Block Scheduling Project 2001: Flexible Scheduling and Staff Development: Models for Jewish Day Schools Flexible Scheduling Project, Participant Questionnaire Flexible Scheduling Project, Akiba Hebrew Academy School Reports Articles on Block Scheduling...
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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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 Center / Urim...
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...
Ethical challenges confront each and every one of us in our daily lives. How honest should we be with our co-workers? To whom do we owe our greatest loyalty? How do we balance between our responsibility to family, community, profession, and self? The famous Mishnaic...
For this issue of the journal we turned to two groups of day school leaders, current and former, to draw from their wisdom and insight into complex issues facing decision-makers and leaders. Each group was presented with one question at a time, and in some questions...
