1.What is UbD? A curriculum development construct that enables teachers to align the three critical stages of planning and implementation: The first stage is desired results or what we want students to know understand and be able to do at the end of the unit. The...
Should Jewish schools offer a range of curriculum standards? Scot A. Berman offers compelling arguments for changing the way educators think about Jewish studies. Contemporary day school education in North America is marked by its breadth and progressiveness. It is...
Devora Steinmetz asks Scot Berman: Does your plan address the real issues behind lack of student interest, motivation and engagement? I set out to read Scot Berman’s piece “One Size Does Not Fit All” with eagerness and anticipated agreement, since I believe that any...
Ora Zohar has been a master educator and an inspiring mentor for decades. In 1977, she began teaching at the Graduate School of Education at Hebrew University, and trained the first groups of staff for the Center of Staff Development. In 1978, this group began to lead...
Menu. Writing the day’s agenda on the board. “You’re saying, ‘Kid, we have planned this lesson and we are not going to waste your time’. So menu is very important for building respect.” Highlights. Beginning the day by asking students to share positive events in their...
1929 Born in Jerusalem to parents Bertha and Harry Levin who immigrated from Brooklyn 1932 Moves back to Brooklyn, where Ora eventually attends public school, and joins Hashomer Hadati Zionist kibbutz youth movement 1948 First teaching experience in Guelph, Ontario;...
The writings of the remarkable Piaseczno Rebbe, z”l, reveal profound insights about how children learn, as Levi Cooper explains. The culturally rich pre-Holocaust Polish Jewish milieu has bequeathed a legendary figure whose stature as an educator and as an...
Shmuel Jablon reviews a new multimedia curriculum created by Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman, Director of Bonayich. As a school principal, information about new curricula and programs frequently comes my way. Much of this information quickly finds its way to the proverbial...
Beverly Gribetz got a surprise lesson in pedagogy from her musical son and his friends. Here she shares the experience. My husband Ed tells people that I built our house like I build schools. When we were building our house, I discovered that there was an extra space...
Make sure they have good spaces that include all the physical tools, equipment, books and technologies that they need (or make acquiring these part of the project). Offer a variety of different tasks so that each student can find where s/he belongs, and enable...
