One of the top trends in education is re-designing the 21st century classroom. Our students need and deserve better than the status-quo: a lecture-based, stagnant classroom. Our classrooms should enhance and increase pedagogy and the learning process, not hold it back. At Harkham Hillel Hebrew
What happens if there isn't enough enrollment to launch an emerging Torah day school? What are the parents' options when moving to a kiruv position that doesn't have in-town chinuch for the older children? How can a community get a girls' high school off the ground without major overhead costs?
Looking for new ideas to introduce to the classroom? Want to brainstorm and network with like-minded Jewish educators around the world? Want to collaborate with Morot and Rabbeim in other schools? Welcome to #JSchat! Technology has made the world a much smaller place than ever before. Thanks to social media, we
Chinuch refers to realizing the inherent capability…for whichever task, or the capability of a house or an object to fulfill its function… When it is used to refer to the education of children, then the meaning is to raise and develop the child’s nature and capabilities. (Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira of Piaseczno, Chovas
The New and Revised Art and Science of Melamdus is being offered to members of the Chaburah at a 5% discount if registered before November 7. Classes are all held online using the latest technology has to offer to make the classes super-interactive! This year we are offering two distinct modules: 1) Planning and Delivering a
Imagine that you are driving on the highway on your way to visit an old friend. The area is new and unfamiliar. Your GPS has lost satellite reception so you’re forced to rely on the notes that you hurriedly jotted down during the last conversation that you had with your
Leadership may not be the first word that comes to mind when describing teachers. In fact some comprehensive lists of teacher descriptors, such as this one, include such predictable terms as prepared, enthusiastic, and supportive, but mention nothing specific about
At the start of Chodesh Elul the Tzadik Reb Itzel of Petterburg zt”l stepped up to the Aron Kodesh, opened up its doors, and with tears streaming down his cheeks screamed out, “Modeh Ani Lifanecha! I thank you Hashem! “She’nasata lanu Chodesh Elul,” for giving us this
The Art and Science of Melamdus is an online on-demand course available for all mechanchim and mechanchos. The course consists of four modules: Planning and Delivering a Shiur, Classroom Management, Discipline and Understanding Learning Styles,
A few weeks ago, a question was raised by one of the mechanchim in our yeshiva on how to respond to a student who asks his rebbe for his thoughts about the presidential candidate Donald Trump. Many of the mechanchim responded that it would be out of place for a rebbe
