Steven Bailey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada, specializing in Jewish Teacher Education. I believe that the answer to the question in the title is: No. I don’t believe we can teach spirituality – at least, not...
Shira Weiss is currently the Director of Admissions and a member of the Tanach faculty at the Firsch School in Paramus, New Jersey, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Stern College. She has an EdD in Jewish Education and Administration and a...
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...
