Elana Maryles Sztokman, the managing editor of Jewish Educational Leadership, is a writer, editor, and researcher living in Modi’in. When I was in high school, in a Brooklyn yeshiva, most of my female friends and I were happy about our tefillah experience for one...
Dan Finkel held positions as a faculty member and as the Director of Student Life at The Weber School in Atlanta, GA. He is currently developing curriculum for the Center for Jewish Education and Experiences (in Atlanta) until August 2007, when he will begin a PhD...
David Brody is the Rector and Chairperson of the Education Department at the Efrata Teachers’ College in Jerusalem, where he trains early childhood educators for the national religious schools in Israel . He has published an early childhood prayer curriculum, and has...
Rabbi Shawn Zevit, author of "Offerings of the Heart:", has over 25 years experience in spiritual leadership, organizational consulting and training, educational arts, writing, recording, teaching and performing. He is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged and the...
Rabbi Shawn Zevit, author of Offerings of the Heart, has over 25 years experience in spiritual leadership, organizational consulting and training, educational arts, writing, recording, teaching and performing. He is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged and the...
Gary Levine is Director of Professional Services – Judaic Studies at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. Spirituality, before we define it We are all spiritual beings. I mean by this that it is in the nature of human beings to seek some connection with what is...
Differentiation has come on the scene to help teachers meet the challenge of teaching children according to the many ways they learn. While Differentiated Instruction is a modern solution, the ancient Torah adage to "Educate a youth according to his path..."(Proverbs...
Sheera Hefter offers a real-life portrait of how differentiated instruction is applied in her classroom. Differentiated instruction is beneficial to students and teachers in that it emphasizes student effort and persistence, idealizes trying until you succeed, and...
Our initiative is to create an inclusive environment that allows for differentiated models throughout the curriculum. Our program in grades one – three has been developed based upon the following five goals: to promote best educational practices for all children,...
The Jewish New Teacher Project guides teachers in utilizing DI for student assessment. Fayge Safran describes this process. Meeting the needs of all students. Individualized learning programs. Differentiating instruction. In a school whose mission is student centered...
