Although constructivism sounds deceptively simple in theory, many teachers encounter obstacles in creating constructivist classrooms. This constructivist approach to teaching literature gets students to do the talking and the thinking. The notion of a constructivist...
In the late 1960’s Rafi Aaronson, director of the Ministry of Education’s curriculum project, asked the committee members working on that project to establish criteria for the types of questions that were to appear in the student workbooks and the relationship between...
There are Limitations to the Use of Constructivism In Jewish Studies - Chaim Feuerman, Shmuel Feld Constructivism is the Essence of Traditional Jewish Learning - Barbara Freedman "Questioning the Author" Helps to Strengthen Identity - Evan Wolkenstein There are...
Tanakh with Friends The “Tanakh With Friends” series includes five student workbooks on Bereishit (Bereishit Im Haverim), Shemot – Vayikra, Bemidbar – Devarim, Yehoshua, and Shoftim. The text is designed for students at the elementary school level. The workbooks...
The thirteenth century work by an unidentified Spanish scholar, Sefer ha-Hinukh, delineates the 613 mitzvot, associating each precept with a source in the weekly Torah portion. Preceding the introduction to his work, the author writes a short letter where we find the...
This article originally appeared in Jewish Education 54:4 (Winter 1986), p.27-38. Reprinted here with permission. This essay discusses the major findings of a study of how Jewish history is taught in modern Orthodox yeshivah high schools. [1] The researcher examined...
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Avraham’s negotiations and his subsequent purchase of the Meorat HaMachpela, teach us about ancient culture and behavior.
Students learn about the importance of Shabbat in Judaism by analyzing the literary structure of Bereshit 1-2:3. Even though the creation narrative is split into two chapters, it is still one literary unit. The seventh day – a day of rest - is the pinnacle of the six...
Through text study, students analyze why Moshe was chosen to lead the Jewish people.
