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Main aims of the project - preparation of teachers of Jewish subjects for Jewish schools of Ukraine - teaching Jewish subjects for professional teachers who is switching to teaching at Jewish schools - teacher training program (improving level) for teachers who have experience at Jewish schools Selection of candidates - advertising program in Jewish press and Jewish communities in Ukraine; advertising through Jewish schools and educational establishments - interview with main teachers of Bet-midrash; test on professional experience and major teaching skills; candidates will fill a questionnaire on their involvement in communal activities and teaching Jewish subjects - only candidates with recommendation of the community are accepted (recommendation should guarantee teaching position for the candidate after finishing program) - candidates who will not fulfill demands of the program or fail to prove their desire to become teachers of Jewish subjects will be expelled Who is eligible - highly motivated people with no teaching experience recommended by the community - professional teachers of general subjects who are eager to become teachers of Jewish subjects - students of the Department of Jewish studies who have obtained the highest results in their studies and demonstrate their strong will to become teachers at Jewish Schools - professional teachers of Jewish schools who need to improve their level.
These seminars would be held six times a year with 50-60 teachers participating in each one. The were organized on the basis of the Pedagogical Center in collaboration with the Pedagogical Center of Sochnut. These seminars would be devoted to an intensive study of Hebrew, Jewish History and Jewish Tradition and would provide a wide scope of knowledge in major fields of Jewish culture. The seminars ( for more than 190 teachers ) testified to a great interest in our seminars for they included not only lectures and seminars in Hebrew or Jewish History, but excursions to Jewish Historical places, concerts of Jewish music as well. The future seminars are planned so that almost all teachers from Ukraine could pass through at least one seminar per year.
HEBREW
Nalaly Lange
The writer had elaborated an additional material for training older preschool and junior school children in Hebrew. Role-playing and amusing form of the materials presented is conducive to quick and easy memorization and assimilation of a lot of words; owing to this, spoken language of children is developed considerably and their active lexical stock is replenished.
Role-playing material includes:
Plays to develop logical thinking;
Plays to develop concentration, attention;
Game of lotto;
Crosswords
The material can be used as a supplement in the course of preparatory study of Hebrew, namely, in the course of pre-ABC-book study of literacy (age of 6-7), for work with Extended Day Groups, for unassisted work of the pupils and for courses with their parents.
Margarita Balk
Experimental Hebrew Study Program for 1—11 Grades of Specialized Schools with advanced study of Hebrew
The Program is based on a concentric principle: from simple things to more complicated ones.The work contains a detailed explanatory note where the whole curriculum of the course is contemplated:
Purposes of teaching Hebrew in said schools;
Contents of the work pertaining to development of spoken and written language;
Methods and tips in teaching connected language to children;
Criteria to examine the pupils in each type of their jobs.
Further, the work presents the subject-matter (briefly) on teaching spoken language to the pupils of 1 -11 grades, requirements to practical assimilation of all kinds of language activities; the work contains schematic presentation of materials on phonetics, vocabulary and grammar.
Contents of the Program should be supplemented with:
Clear and detailed formulation of topics and amount of time allocated for their study;
Determination of themes for class and extra-class reading;
List of works recommended to memorize by heart;
It is recommended to add "Language Development section into the Program; the section shall contain not only the work over replenishment of the active word stock of the pupils, but their work with synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, idioms too, as well as the work on formation of a connected written language of the pupils.
As a whole, the Program may be used in work.
This work is not an extended Program in Yiddish Language Course This is an estimate plan of the Course, which purpose lies in teaching the children to read and write Yiddish, as well as in developing their connected spoken and written language The presented materials may be used as guidelines for optional classes in Yiddish in day schools, as well as for classes in Sunday Jewish Schools
The writer had elaborated tutorial materials of the history of Jewish people on the Ukrainian lands like additional material to the course of world history and to the general course of the history of Jewish people Historic and cultural information about the life of Jewish people on Ukrainian lands gives the wide possibility to the teacher to use it on the lessons of the History. It may be consider that the advantage of this work is the possibility to use it in various types of Jewish schools The writer gives a lot of interesting materials, describes the historic facts with picturesque examples by Jewish and Ukrainian literature, folklore, Hasidic tales. The writer has described successfully a social, economical, political and cultural situation of Jewish community on Ukrainian lands in different historic periods
The writer in his article thinks over certain matters of promoting cognitive activities of the pupils through using role-playing methods and tips in history lessons on the Jews. Selection of such method, in the writer's opinion, is conductive to development of an interest in the subject under study among the children, to more deep assimilation of material studied, it develops the self-support, thought and language, emotions and feelings The role-play method is one among ways to implement the principle of conscious and active education
This works is named as the Program on study of traditions of the Jews in 5-11 grades of general secondary Jewish schools, although the work is not the Program from methodical point of view It rather presents a thematic plan of the lessons on the traditions in 5-11 grades of the above-mentioned schools In the work the writer had reflected her experience of teaching Jewish traditions The topics, proposed by the writer for study on the lessons of Jewish traditions, are laid out very thoroughly and resourcefully, but their capsule version and brisk narration do not produce entire imagination on content of the course. This material is intended for use by teachers in traditions and may be successfully used in their work under a creative approach.
This work is a collection of scenarios to conduct certain Jewish Holidays. The materials are a result of many years' experience of the writer in the field of teaching Jewish Traditions and are distinguished with original form and content. Participation of the children in such Holidays will promote their more active and conscious assimilation of training material, as well as will develop their creative capacities. The material presented may be recommended to conduct out-of-class events in day and holiday schools, in work of theatre and drama study groups.
(An Integrated Lesson of Hebrew Tradition)
The writer had produced an abstract of an integrated lesson on Hebrew-tradition in the 2nd grade. The lesson is built as a play-contest, in the course of which children generalise and systematise their knowledge on the meaning of Pesach Holiday, on the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, as well as fix the studied vocabulary on the topic. The writer successfully uses the principle of differentiated education - he divides the children into two groups-teams in accordance with their training and knowledge levels. This allows to activate cognitive activities and attention of each pupil and has favourable influence over development of a child's personality. The lesson is saturated with diverse and interesting tasks. Content of each task for each group of participants is elaborated well. The tasks develop cognitive interest in the filed of Jewish traditions, enrich word stock; they are conducive to development of thought and language of the pupils. The work may be recommended for teachers in junior classes, for teachers in Hebrew and traditions in Jewish schools.
This Project is an elaborated excursion-education Programme on Jewish Places of
Ukraine, consisting of three stages and covering historical regions of Ukraine that
were the places of compact residence of Ukrainian Jews (Volyn, Polesye, Galicia,
Bukovyna, Podolia) in the past.
The excursion programme is intended for the senior pupils in Jewish day schools.
Since the duration of any such excursion is 4-8 days, it is expedient to conduct
these in days of school vacation. The work promotes familiarisation of the pupils
with traditions, with the whole material culture and with spiritual heritage of
Ukrainian Jewry.
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