Teaching Israel Israel Educators Training Seminar
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Why Do We Even Teach About Israel? How Should We Teach About Israel?
This session explores participants' personal relationships to Israel, and examines how our own ideological baggage may influence our educational philosophies as Israel Educators. During this session, we will examine four different models of why we engage in Israel Education, as well as four different models of how we teach about Israel.
This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land
This session explores whether and to what extent it is advisable to include both the traditional Israeli/Zionist consensus narrative, as well as the traditional Palestinian consensus narrative, when educating about the Arab-Israeli conflict. What are the benefits and drawbacks of doing so?
Education v Indoctrination within Israel Education
Most Israel Educators would agree that they want to both develop independent and critical thinking skills, as well as inculcate particular values and attitudes, amongst their students/chanichim. Where do we (and the organizations we represent) draw the line between these two important ideals? As part of this session, we will examine the benefits and drawbacks of three different models that try and answer this question.
Edutainment
To what extent do we allow market forces to influence our educational decisions? Do we compromise on serious and authentic education in order to offer students/chanichim relevancy and fun? To what extent (if any) might this be understandable/acceptable?
Israel and Jerusalem in Jewish sources
This shiur deals with the theme of Israel and Jerusalem in Biblical, and Talmudic and other Rabbinic literature, discussing whether any lessons regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict today can and should be learned from ancient Jewish sources of yesteryear.
If your organization is interested in ordering this Seminar for your Israel Educators/madrichim, please contact Ilan Bloch, the Director of Teaching Israel, at director@teachingisrael.com
This session explores participants' personal relationships to Israel, and examines how our own ideological baggage may influence our educational philosophies as Israel Educators. During this session, we will examine four different models of why we engage in Israel Education, as well as four different models of how we teach about Israel.
This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land
This session explores whether and to what extent it is advisable to include both the traditional Israeli/Zionist consensus narrative, as well as the traditional Palestinian consensus narrative, when educating about the Arab-Israeli conflict. What are the benefits and drawbacks of doing so?
Education v Indoctrination within Israel Education
Most Israel Educators would agree that they want to both develop independent and critical thinking skills, as well as inculcate particular values and attitudes, amongst their students/chanichim. Where do we (and the organizations we represent) draw the line between these two important ideals? As part of this session, we will examine the benefits and drawbacks of three different models that try and answer this question.
Edutainment
To what extent do we allow market forces to influence our educational decisions? Do we compromise on serious and authentic education in order to offer students/chanichim relevancy and fun? To what extent (if any) might this be understandable/acceptable?
Israel and Jerusalem in Jewish sources
This shiur deals with the theme of Israel and Jerusalem in Biblical, and Talmudic and other Rabbinic literature, discussing whether any lessons regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict today can and should be learned from ancient Jewish sources of yesteryear.
If your organization is interested in ordering this Seminar for your Israel Educators/madrichim, please contact Ilan Bloch, the Director of Teaching Israel, at director@teachingisrael.com