Asking questions. Questions set the stage for safe learning, sending the message that questions themselves are valued. Teacher non-response. By avoiding an immediate response, teachers encourage students to ask more rather than seek out a correct answer. Exploratory...
Q: How can I change my classroom and use differentiated instruction? It sounds so overwhelming. A: Every journey starts with the first step. Begin with only one aspect of the curriculum (content, process, or product) in one lesson or unit. Slowly you will be able to...
Differentiated Instruction (DI) – Classroom practice that respects student learning styles, preferences, and differences around content, process, product and/or environment. Differentiated instruction is an umbrella concept, incorporating current research on the...
Tova Shimon is the director of Tal Am at the Bronfman Jewish Education Center of Montreal. She can be reached at tovas@talam.org. Stanley Peerless, a former Jewish day school principal, is currently an independent educational consultant in Jerusalem. He can be reached...
Nava Nevo is an instructor at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the "Nitzanim" project. Her academic domains are: Hebrew as a second language, assessment of students' achievements, and...
Naomi Stillman serves as the Associate Director of NETA. Born in New York, she has spent a great deal of time in Israel. Since taking her position at NETA in 2002, she has taken charge of the Boston NETA office. She serves as liaison to the Israel team, Hebrew...
Diana Yacobi, M.A. Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She has been a synagogue school director for the last ten years and has had lifelong involvement with synagogue school education. She has published a number of articles on supplementary Jewish...
Zev bar-Lev has been teaching linguistics for 36 years. He developed a teaching method, “Sheltered Initiation Language Learning,” for which he has written courses for 30 languages and has published 30 articles in professional journals. He holds a BA in Russian from...
Debbie Sondheim holds a masters degree in literacy from Bank Street College of Education and is a long-time teacher of Tanakh. Her current project combines those two spheres which in her work with Learning Disabled students at S/A/R Academy in Riverdale, NY. The...
Rahel Halabe is a graduate of Hebrew University (B.A. Arabic Language and Literature, Teaching and Translation diplomas). She lectures at the Vancouver School of Theology teaching Biblical Hebrew and has created and teaches the Vancouver Mini Ulpan...
