Section archive - In-Service Training

These online professional development sessions (webinars) were offered in realtime to thousands of Jewish educators. Master teachers and academics presented on a variety of topics including Jewish text study, innovative programming, school policy, and classroom management. Here you can download the recorded presentations along with the accompanying slides for use at your convenience.

SuLaM is open to Jewish heads of school and other administrative leaders working at Jewish day schools who are looking for an opportunity to grow Judaically as professionals. The two-year program gives people the knowledge and skills to take ownership of the Jewish vision of their schools. SuLaM is fully funded, thanks to the generous support of the AVI CHAI Foundation. It is open to administrators working in any Jewish day school, including community and denominational schools.

This webinar will help school personnel better understand and address dangerous applications of technology impacting today’s youth. This is not a “technophobic” presentation. Instead the emphasis is on creating a healthy balance of helpful technology and protecting adolescents from its more destructive applications. Attendees will explore the different varieties of technology available, along with unhealthy ways in which this can be utilized. The ways in which technology is affecting youth academically and socially will be addressed as well.

Higher education systems have undergone huge changes in the last decades which forced them to redefine their traditional roles, rethink their theoretical premises and restructure their operational practices. This presentation examines the impact of the immense changes in higher education on the shaping of teacher training frameworks worldwide. It relates to: the diversity of teacher training institutional models; manifestations of professional upgrade; the need of harmonization; changing roles of teachers in the knowledge era; the teaching-research dilemma in teacher training institutions; implementation of the digital technologies; the challenge of networking in a global environment.