Empowering Students (Spring 2012)

From the Editor

• Letter from the Editor by: Zvi Grumet

Features

• Choices for Children: Why and how to let students decide by: Alfie Kohn
• An Ethos of Empowerment by: Levi Cooper
• Jewish Education Is Empowerment by: Ismar Schorsch

Research

• Empowering Students through Problem and Project Based Learning by: Moshe Krakowski, Juli Kramer and Naomi Lev
• Empowering Students: A “win-win” educational strategy by: Steve Bailey
• Igniting Hidden Sparks: Metacognition to empower teachers and learners by: Debbie Niderberg, Rona Milch Novick, and Karen Kruger
• Resolving Ambiguities: Empowering students through autonomous interpretation by: Moshe Sokolow
• Hevruta Study and Student Empowerment by: Ken Firestone

Applications

• RealSchool: Giving students the reins by: Tikvah Wiener
• Teaching Independence, Starting with the Teacher by: Maccabee Avishur, Azaryah Cohen, Debbie Wrotslavsky
• Student Empowerment: A student’s perspective by: Daniel Bonner
• A Change for the Better: How a veteran teacher transformed his teaching practices by: Allen Saks
• Areyvut by: Daniel Rothner
• Empowering Students from Infancy to Adulthood: A case study in Jewish education by: Hana Bor