Dear Editor: As a Jewish educator devoted to models of ethical education in Jewish schools, I applaud Jonathan Cohen’s focus on social-emotional education as integral to Jewish education and Chanah Zweiter’s practical application of those goals in the innovative...
From the Editor 🔒 Looking In by: Shalom Berger Focus On: Orality and Textuality 🔒 Orality, Textuality and the Living Experience of Oral Torah by: Allen Selis 🔒 Gemara Berura: A Structured Method for Textual Analysis by: Matti Monheit 🔒 Storytelling: Putting the...
Addressing the Problem of "Disconnection": Creating a Learning Environment of Personal Relevance and Passion based on the Wisdom of the Kabbalah I) The Problem: For the past 15 years I have been teaching full-time. I have taught Jewish Studies to adults, ranging in...
From the Editor 🔒 Looking In by: Shalom Z. Berger Focus On - What We Teach 🔒 Helping Jewish Schools to Become Caring Learning Environments by: Chana Zweiter 🔒 Some Misunderstandings of Piaget and the Curriculum by: David Elkind 🔒 Ethics, Ideology, and...
From Ten Da’at, Volume VII, Number 1, Fall 1993. Appears here with permission. I Historically, until the mid-twentieth century, yeshiva education past the elementary level was considered a luxury, usually afforded to those who showed extraordinary intellectual...
In the late 1960’s Rafi Aaronson, director of the Ministry of Education’s curriculum project, asked the committee members working on that project to establish criteria for the types of questions that were to appear in the student workbooks and the relationship between...
Although constructivism sounds deceptively simple in theory, many teachers encounter obstacles in creating constructivist classrooms. This constructivist approach to teaching literature gets students to do the talking and the thinking. The notion of a constructivist...
From the Editor 🔒 Looking In by: Shalom Berger Focus On - Technology in Education 🔒 The Internet as a Tool for Student Inquiry by: Craig A. Cunningham 🔒 Effective Design of Computer Based Multimedia Learning by: Richard Mayer 🔒 Teachers’ Use of Computers...
Teaching the Flood Story:The Importance of Cultural Context Reprinted from Ten Da’at 9:1 Winter 1996 Most yeshivah students learn the pre-patriarchal biblical stories in the early years of elementary school, and for many, this remains their only systematic study of...
By: Rabbi Dr. Meyer Karlin Introduction Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, its Independence Day, or Yom HaAtzmaut has been celebrated in a variety of ways. The religious community, at least that major part of it which saw in the founding of the State a...
