Classroom Community (Beyond the Family Tree Lesson 1)
Summary: In this lesson, students will identify what they want to know
about diversity in their local Jewish community, participate in a game
exploring classroom diversity, and create identity maps.
Essential Question
- How are Jews a diverse people, and how does that diversity show up in
my community?
Objective:
- Students will learn about Jewish diversity in their own communities to
prepare to make connections with broader Jewish experience.
- Arts and Culture
- History
- Jewish Peoplehood
- People
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
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Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley (TEPV), Woodcliff Lake, NJ. This online, opt-in, home-based learning model for 7th-9th graders is a partnership with JETS Israel (Jerusalem EdTech Solutions).
One of the successes of J-Life is that it continues to build community among parents. Most of the learners who started in kindergarten have stayed to continue going on to the upper grades. Parents express that they have a lot of fun participating in J-Life and that they enjoy coming to these experiences.
Mayim, our initial example of "Additional" Models, could be placed in a Multi-aged, Project-Based Learning, or Experiential Learning bucket. Mayim is a K-5 learning community in which depth of relationships and depth of learning are intentionally fostered and visible everywhere.