Section archive - In-Service Training

A recently held four day Naomi Prawer Kadar International Seminar for Digital Technology in Jewish Education attracted 25 Jewish Studies teachers to CIM-ORT, Mexico’s first World ORT-affiliated school. The seminar brought experts Eitan Steinfeld and Benyamin Yogev from Israel to lead teachers from CIM-ORT, and other Jewish schools in Mexico City, El Salvador and Ecuador in an exploration of how the Teaching for Understanding framework can be used to teach Jewish festivals and commemorations creatively.

The Yiddish Book Center is now accepting applications for its 2013-2014 Fellowship Program! Application deadline: January 4, 2013. The Fellowship Program offers talented young college graduates who are passionate about Yiddish language and culture the opportunity to spend a year as full-time Yiddish Book Center staff, learning new skills and deepening their own knowledge of Yiddish language, literature, and culture.

This issue of EdJewTopia, focuses on how we as educators can integrate technology into complementary settings. This issue of EdJewTopia is particularly exciting as all of the authors are PELIE Technology Fellows, who were selected in teams of two to attend the 2012 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference, the world's largest education and technology exposition.

This year the Jewish Education Change Network produced a rich program of online webinar's on a wide spectrum of hot Jewish education topics. They have been recorded and posted online for those who missed them or would like to review them. Summer vacation is a good time to hear them.