Shirah W. Hecht is a Research Associate with Goodman Research Group, a company that consults in educational and non-profit program evaluation. Dr. Hecht has worked on diverse projects in the Jewish community, and has been a Lecturer at Boston College and Boston Hebrew...
Mention "Active Learning" and you will likely get one of two responses. The first will be a puzzled, glazed-over look, as if you had just landed from Mars or returned from some education conference. The second is a different kind of puzzled look, indicating something...
active learning – any type of learning activity in which the students are actively involved constructivism – a theory of learning which posits that the most meaningful learning is when the students construct meaning based on information they have learned cooperative...
Why might a teacher/school want to try active learning in the classroom? What challenges can a teacher/school expect to encounter in implementing active learning? What are some ways of overcoming those obstacles? Does preparing active learning lesson require more work...
Mark Smilowitz taught Jewish Studies in high school and middle school, both in the United States and in Israel. He currently works in teacher training, teaches in Midrasha, and produces a weekly podcast on teaching for the Lookstein Center www.lookstein.org/podcasts....
Aliza Libman Baronofsky is a teacher of Humash and math and dean of seventh grade students at the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA. In this article, she shares her experience with three years of an active learning trial she conducted in her middle school Humash...
Tova Warburg Sinensky teaches Talmud and Jewish Philosophy at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls and serves as a community scholar at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey. In this article, she presents a variety of active learning techniques she...
Beverly A. Buncheris a Certified Empowerment Coach (www.theempowermentcoach.net) , former educator, contributing editor of JEL and its former Editor in Chief. In this article, she offers suggestions for transitioning teachers into using active learning. Active...
Debra Danilewitz is the School Counselor at Bialik Hebrew Day School in Toronto. She has written two books, David goes to Play Therapy and Memories and Reflections of my School Years. In this article, she describes an art project which brings a metaphor to life. The...
Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman, Contributing Editor of JEL, is a writer, researcher, educator and activist. In this article, she describes the values and educational philosophy of Yonah Fuld - a man driven by a love of children, a deep sense of what is educationally...
