Section archive - In-Service Training

This issue of EdJewTopia looks at professional development through a variety of different lenses. It explores practical suggestions, the implications of new technology tools, training educators to address learning differences and new angles for achieving real, meaningful development. EdJewTopia is an e-newsletter devoted to the field of complementary Jewish education (CJE). There are hundreds of thousands of children engaged in community programs, synagogue schools, homeshuling, experiential retreats, and other modes of Jewish engagement. EdJewTopia is designed to highlight professionals' great work, support educators and parents with new tools, and inform the community at large about CJE.

MOFET ITEC – International Teacher Educators Community of The MOFET Institute is proud to present an online webinar without charge to the global education community with Dr. Yael Fischer on The Road to Excellence: Success Stories of Schools on Wednesday, June 15, 2011- 7:00-8:30P.M. - Israel time. The lecture will deal with the characteristics of excellent schools. These characteristics are based on the documentation of success stories of schools that were considered good and that succeeded in becoming excellent. Such documentation does not constitute the development of a new managerial theory, but rather reveals the unique components that led these schools to undergo a change from “good” to “excellent”. Although the lecture will deal mainly with the conceptualization of “an excellent school”, it will also briefly recount the success stories of the excellent schools.

MOFET JTEC has begun planning an online forum for individuals involved in Hebrew education in the Diaspora. The forum, which is being planned in response to the needs and requests from the field, will serve as a “meeting place” in which the participants can get together, raise problems and issues related to their work, be exposed to what is happening in other places, and jointly build a learning-working community of peers.

Darim Online is pleased to announce the launch of a Social Media Boot Camp for Educators. This program will support innovative Jewish educators in using social media effectively in their work, and assist their organizations in evolving models for success in the digital age. Darim is seeking to mentor up to 10 Jewish educational organizations, represented by 3-5 person teams, that are engaged in innovation and risk taking and which serve North American Jews. These teams will participate in a year long professional development and coaching experience to advance their work.