Teacher Resources
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Coming in June 2024, the best Bible resource book ever, from award winner and 2023 Covenant Foundation Jewish Family Education Fellow Jonathan Schmidt Chapman.Read more » -
Posted: October 17, 2023|Today more than ever, North American children and teens want to discuss Israel. Here are online and downloadable resources you can use today to engage them (and even their parents) in discussion, help them find answers to their questions, and help them grapple with the historical context of today's crisis.Read more »
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Read more »Think about a time when you stepped into a classroom or event or any room full of unfamiliar faces. Daunting, right?
Using creativity, practical tools, and a little prep work, you can help your students and staff break the ice and begin building relationships quickly and successfully.
Relationships lie at the core of successful education, and icebreakers help initiate and grow relationships, according to Batsheva Frankel in The Jewish Educator's Companion: Practical Tools and Inspirational Ideas. Icebreakers accomplish many things — they can create a sense of community, encourage trust, and allow for better bonding experiences.
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Teachers form the backbone of Jewish education.
It's nice to show them gratitude with a gift as the year comes to a close. Here are some of our favorite ideas.
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Maybe It Happened This Way
The Chicago chapter of the ARJE this year gifted its members this midrashic approach to Bible, combining storytelling with learning.
Maybe It Happened This Way: Bible
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Read more »In Teach Them Diligently, Bonnie K. Stevens writes how the joyfulness and energy of Purim celebrations provide educators with opportunties to reflect on the role arts can play in Jewish education.
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Read more »Yom HaShoah begins this year on April 17.
Each passing year brings on a greater urgency to recall this dark time in our history. With fewer living witnesses able to tell their stories firsthand, we need a new way to fulfill the responsibility that Holocaust survivors have entrusted to us - to remember, to tell the story, and to act.
Plan now using a powerful new approach.
Light from the Darkness: A Ritual for Holocaust Remembrance is a 45-minute, structured seder-like experience that helps the next generations remember and honor the Holocaust. It can be done either in-person or virtually. And it is deeply moving.
“It’s out
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Read more »For all of us, the past few pandemic years have been scary and disorienting. For teens in a hunkered-down society, it’s also meant losing opportunities to develop independence.
“What our teens need in this moment is support for finding their voice and finding their autonomy. Then we’ll slowly see the pain and fear untangle,” says Michelle Shapiro-Abraham, an award-winning teen educator and director of strategic innovation and youth programs at the Union for Reform Judaism. "We need to showing them that they can claim their power.”
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Excite learners about Bible exploration with accessible translation and modern midrashic stories.Read more »
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You survived the fall holiday marathon. Now it's a good time to use your uninterrupted schedule to focus on your students' Hebrew skills.
Here are some resources to help you see where your students are in their Hebrew, and ensure they succeed in reaching the next level of your program.
Assess Hebrew language skills
The Diagnostic Hebrew Reading Test can help diagnose and remediate Hebrew reading problems for students who have already learned the Hebrew letters and vowels. This 45-minute diagnostic test is designed
