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This article takes as its starting point the conviction that high quality Jewish education depends heavily on high quality teaching. Grounded in this idea and in a multileveled exploration—one indebted to recent Jewish thought—of the nature of excellence in teaching and its defining characteristics, the article proceeds to try to understand policy implications that might flow from possible and actual conclusions concerning these characteristics. Along the way, the policy implications that would flow from an inability to identify a core of characteristics shared by excellent teachers are also explored. The article concludes by highlighting the indispensable role of communities in fostering excellence in teaching in Jewish education: In explaining this role, it seeks to identify some of the key qualities of communities that succeed in this challenge.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 14, 2009
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This article focuses on the ways hevruta learning can contribute to teachers' capacity to be present to self, other, subject matter and the cultural context in which the learning occurred. Hevruta learning, when conceptualized for the purposes of teachers' professional development, brings to the fore both the interpretive and relational aspects of the learning process. The theoretical frameworks of philosophical hermeneutics and relational psychology infuse our design of hevruta learning as well as our analysis of teachers' unfolding awareness of presence.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 14, 2009
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Effective school-based induction for new teachers involves much more than mentoring; it requires a comprehensive array of supports buttressed by a collaborative professional culture. Yet few schools are able to offer such a nourishing environment to their new hires. What would it take to bridge the gap between the real and the ideal? In 2005, a team of researchers and practitioners launched a three-year project with two goals: a) to help the leaders of four Jewish day schools create comprehensive systems of induction for their new teachers and b) to carefully document the process. This paper presents the theory behind their work, their strategies for effecting change and lessons learned along the way.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 14, 2009
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Jim Joseph Foundation Announces $12 Million in Grants to HUC, YU and JTS to Advance Jewish Education
The Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF) today announced that it has awarded nearly $12 million in grants to The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC), and Yeshiva University (YU). The initial grants, to be administered over a five-year period, will be used as financial aid for students pursuing education degrees or certification in programs that prepare them to work with Jewish youth and young adults, and to assist each institution in planning new and enhanced programs that will attract more educators to the field.
Published: 2009
Updated: Sep. 10, 2009
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After 25 years of operating without a home of its own, The MOFET Institute is now inaugurating its own new building. The new building has been erected in northern Tel Aviv on the campus of The Levinsky College of Education, which had, in the past, hosted the Institute on its premises for 21 years.
Published: 2009
Updated: Aug. 05, 2009
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Darim Online has announced two new programs for this coming year. Darim Educator Fellows - An Intensive Semester of Hands-On Professional Development and Darim Online - Webinar Series and Online Community for Professional Learning.
Published: 2009
Updated: Aug. 03, 2009
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Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women has partnered with the Legacy Heritage Fund to create a special program to train women to become Jewish educators. Beginning this fall, students dedicated to a career in Jewish education will be able to major in Jewish studies at Stern with a concentration in Jewish education. Nine outstanding students pursuing this three-year track have been chosen as Legacy Heritage Scholars and will receive full tuition support in the form of grants and forgivable loans for three years of undergraduate study at Stern College. Graduates who work in the field of Jewish education for three years will have their loans forgiven in full.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jul. 29, 2009
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The author, who entered the Israeli education system as an idealistic recruit and left it after two years of swimming unaided in the 'shark pool', proposes an idea which he feels will help lower the high attrition rate for new teachers entering the Israeli education system. He proposes implementing a three year apprenticeship system to allow new teachers to serve as teaching assistants for the first three years, gradually taking individual classes first with and later without supervision. He sees this idea as superior even to the mentorship programs presently used by some schools.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jul. 13, 2009
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More than 75 educators from 15 countries are preparing to beat a modern path in early July to the teaching of ancient wisdom at the de Gunzburg Jewish Education Seminars. Coordinated by World ORT’s Education and Technology Department, the four-day seminars, which will be held concurrently in Buenos Aires, Rome and Kishinev, will provide Jewish Studies and Hebrew teachers with insights and skills to incorporate technology into their lessons.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 30, 2009
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The Masters' Programs in Education and Jewish Studies at NYU Steinhardt are designed to enhance the skills and provide training to teachers and aspiring administrators in Jewish educational settings. While providing a core of academic, research, and cohort experiences in education, Jewish education, and Judaic studies, the program is also tailored to its students' individual needs and interests. Close and personalized mentoring is provided by faculty from the School of Education and the Skirball Department, as well as by expert practitioners in the field of Jewish education working in the New York City area.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 25, 2009