Focus on How We Teach (Fall 2004)
This issue of Jewish Educational Leadership, How We Teach: Text, Transmission and Tradition grapples with some of the questions that challenge us, as educators, as a result of the Jewish People’s marriage to the Book. Does authority rest with the text, with the teacher, or with both? Is the role of the teacher to facilitate the transmission of the text, to interpret it for the students, or to foster independent interpretation on the part of the students? What are the appropriate educational methodologies that flow from the answers that we give to these questions? For example, should the teacher be the central figure in the classroom, or should he/she activate the students to rely on their own readings and research?
To read the editor’s complete introduction, click here.
Focus On: Cooperative Learning
- Models of Cooperative Learning by: Shlomo Sharan
- Research Report: Cooperative Learning and Bible Study by: Dr. Shimon Rapport
- FAQ on Cooperative Learning by: Beverly Buncher
Focus On: Orality and Textuality
- Orality and Texuality: A Historical Perspective by: Zvi Grumet
- Orality, Textuality and the Living Experience of Oral Torah by: Allen Selis
- Pesah Seder by: Zvi Grumet
- Storytelling: Putting the Oral Tradition Back into the Classroom by: Peninnah Schram
- Uncovering the Layers: The Revadim Method by: Pinchas Uriel Hayman
- Gemara Berura: A Structured Method for Textual Analysis by: Matti Monheit
- Using Midrash in the Classroom by: Simi Peters
From the Editor
- Looking In by: Shalom Berger
Features
- Review of New Educational Materials by: Eli Kohn
- From the Classics: Learning the Laws by Rote by: Levi Cooper
- Perspectives on Jewish Educational Leadership by: Dr. Moshe Sokolow
- Communications