Research

As “discussants” of this journal issue, we are impressed and inspired by these authors’ energy, dedication, and commitment to improving their practice as teacher educators by studying their practice. When we teach action research to preservice and practicing educators in our respective universities, we situate it as a form of …

In response to anxieties concerning the future of Jewish life, in August of 1988, Mort Mandel convened a Commission on Jewish Education in North America to initiate a process that could bring about systemic improvement in the quality of Jewish education in the United States and Canada…

This paper illuminates the beginning steps in learning to teach – gaining new knowledge and transforming it for purposes of teaching. The authors, while working with people who were not experts in Jewish content or pedagogy, tried to foster substantive understandings and a stance toward teaching that favors engagement of …

Curriculum materials are used by teachers on a daily basis; they are the ‘stuff’ of lessons and units, activities and worksheets. This paper will suggest ways of helping teachers investigate curriculum materials as a vehicle for increasing their subject matter knowledge and improving the quality of teaching and learning in …

This article explores the nature of effective professional development of teachers by addressing three questions: 1) What makes it challenging to create effective professional development for teachers in both general and Jewish education? 2) What are the critical principles of effective professional development? 3) What happens when these principles are …