Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

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...

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

Active Learning – An Action Research Project

Avraham Glustein is Head of School of Politz Day School in Cherry Hill, NJ. See the sidebar for this article here. In this paper, I will outline my school community’s journey towards the implementation of Active Learning (henceforth AL) in both our Judaic and general...

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

My First Impressions of Active Learning

Avraham Glustein is Head of School of Politz Day School in Cherry Hill, NJ. See the related article here. You can feel their creative energy flow throughout the classroom! They love the challenge of a new concept, conquering it, and sharing their ideas with each...

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

From the Classics: The Choreographed Seder Night*

Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. One of the great forums of active Jewish learning is the annual Pesaḥ seder. So many of the seder rituals are aimed at actively...

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

The “New” Academic Rigor

Dr. Steven Lorch is the founding head of the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. Prior to that he headed the Akiba Hebrew Academy (PA), Mount Scopus College (Melbourne, Australia), and the Hartman High School (Jerusalem). In this article, he presents both...

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

Critiques of Constructivism

Dr. Steven Lorch is the founding head of the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. Prior to that he headed the Akiba Hebrew Academy (PA), Mount Scopus College (Melbourne, Australia), and the Hartman High School (Jerusalem). Read his related article, "The 'New'...

Yonah Fuld: Active Learning, Yiddishkeit, and A Bit of Love

Active Learning: Theories and Research

Jill Beloff Farrell is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Barry University. In this article, she surveys the literature on active learning to provide conceptual underpinnings, and provides both historical context and a...

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