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I think this is a great project to work on. My recommendation would be to build a wiki. I think it's the best way to allow multiple collaborators to post documents, links and ideas in an organized way. We are discussing the…"
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Blog Posts
Chinuch Energy: The Importance of Friends in the Teachers' Room
Every other Wednesday, I post ideas about how to improve the learning going on in the classroom. There are so many buzzwords and great ideas floating around about what could make education better: blended learning, 1 to 1 education, media labs. It would take 30 hours a day to get schools to be perfect and for teachers to prepare the needed lessons to implement these ideas. Yet, even if all these innovations were implemented, I'm not sure these ideas would improve the learning…
ContinuePosted by Shira Hochheimer on May 22, 2013 at 1:09am
Differentiated Discipline
In my role at an all boys Yeshiva high school, I am involved in discipline. A common complaint I hear from my students is the “unfairness” they feel when punishments do not appear to be 100% consistent 100% of the time. This complaint comes in various contexts and forms. The common theme is that many students express a feeling of frustration from inconsistency.
While it is debatable to me whether the students really agree with the argument they make or are simply unhappy…
ContinuePosted by Josh Kahn on May 10, 2013 at 7:21am
Common Core Judaics: The Six Steps of Academic Vocabulary
The Common Core
I don't know about you, but my school has been living and breathing the common core over the last few weeks. Although as a private school, we are exempt from the 3-8th grade testing requirement, my school administered the tests anyway to help provide benchmarks for the General Studies program.
Continue So we lived through the state exams. Our students did really well, and this is not the place to discuss the…
Posted by Shira Hochheimer on May 1, 2013 at 6:30am
Speaking to a Larger Audience
One of the things I have experimented with in my classes this year is assigning students work which they are required to share on a larger stage than our classroom.
I had several complementary goals in mind in devising these assignments, but I will focus here more on the results than the planning.
In one of my classes, Contemporary…
ContinuePosted by Noam stein on April 23, 2013 at 5:30pm
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WYHS 5773 Selichot Video
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CHAVRUTA (FROM NCSY)
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Latest Activity
Yehuda Chanales replied to Yair Daar's discussion Google-Time Database in the group Project Based Learning
Yair Daar added a discussion to the group Teaching Gemara
Google-Time Database
Hi. I am looking to introduce Google-Time or anchor projects for my Gemara classes next year. I teach weaker students for whom two periods of Gemara a day can be very challenging for a number of reasons. I think that giving them time to pursue their own interests could be very powerful, but will require a significant amount of Torah-related resources.To that end, I am looking to create some type of collaborative database that has resources (books, websites, organizations, etc...) in addition…See More
Josh Grajower replied to Yair Daar's discussion Google-Time Database in the group Project Based Learning"Hey Yair,
I love this idea and have thought about implementing a similar program myself. I would really like to collaborate on this project. I will be in the NY area over the summer and would love to work on this somehow together."
Shira Hochheimer posted a blog postChinuch Energy: The Importance of Friends in the Teachers' Room
Every other Wednesday, I post ideas about how to improve the learning going on in the classroom. There are so many buzzwords and great ideas floating around about what could make education better: blended learning, 1 to 1 education, media labs. It would take 30 hours a day to get schools to be perfect and for teachers to prepare the needed lessons to implement these ideas. Yet, even if all these innovations were implemented, I'm not sure these ideas would improve the learning drastically…See More
Yair Daar added a discussion to the group Project Based Learning
Google-Time Database
Hi. I am looking to introduce Google-Time or anchor projects for my Gemara classes next year. I teach weaker students for whom two periods of Gemara a day can be very challenging for a number of reasons. I think that giving them time to pursue their own interests could be very powerful, but will require a significant amount of Torah-related resources.To that end, I am looking to create some type of collaborative database that has resources (books, websites, organizations, etc...) in addition…See More
Project Based Learning
This group deals with issues relating to the implementation of project based learning in Judaic studies.
Josh Kahn posted a blog postDifferentiated Discipline
In my role at an all boys Yeshiva high school, I am involved in discipline. A common complaint I hear from my students is the “unfairness” they feel when punishments do not appear to be 100% consistent 100% of the time. This complaint comes in various contexts and forms. The common theme is that many students express a feeling of frustration from inconsistency. While it is debatable to me whether the students really agree with the argument they make or are simply unhappy to be punished, the…See More
Shira Hochheimer posted a blog postCommon Core Judaics: The Six Steps of Academic Vocabulary
The Common CoreI don't know about you, but my school has been living and breathing the common core over the last few weeks. Although as a private school, we are exempt from the 3-8th grade testing requirement, my school administered the tests anyway to help provide benchmarks for the General Studies program. So we lived through the state exams. Our students did really well, and this is not the place to discuss the assessments and my opinions of them. But, what I learned from the year of Common…See More
Yehuda Chanales commented on Josh Rohr's blog post Are we "watering down" our students' experiences?"Josh-
Thank you for your very thoughtful post and questions! I think it woud be great if you could share some of the specific ideas you have in mind that you think could help achieve your goals.
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Noam stein posted a blog postSpeaking to a Larger Audience
One of the things I have experimented with in my classes this year is assigning students work which they are required to share on a larger stage than our classroom.I had several complementary goals in mind in devising these assignments, but I will focus here more on the results than the planning.In one of my classes, Contemporary Issues in Jewish Thought (an 11th and 12th grade one semester required course) the students were assigned to research a contemporary issue in Jewish thought of…See More
Michael Bitton posted a blog postJedcamp...WOW
As I write these words, the excitement I felt hours ago is still here!WOW!Those three letters basically sum up what took place today at Yavneh Academy. The first, ever, JedcampNJNY (second Jedcamp ever!) began at 9am and what an event it was! (You just didn’t want it to end!)From the get go, educators from all over began to pour in and the connections began.I couldn’t keep up. Everywhere you turned another new face was ready to connect (Wow!). The feeling of belonging and higher purpose…See More
Josh Rohr posted a blog postAre we "watering down" our students' experiences?
With Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut behind us, I am once again left wondering if the students gained anything more than not having class from the various programs that occurred. Considering that one of the tenets of Modern Orthodoxy is its Zionistic inclination, we don't really provide our students with good reasons and explanations for why they should be Zionistic. Can we give them more than a soldier and the Nefesh B'Nefesh video (which, by the way, makes me cry every time I see it)? Is it…See More
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