Tool 3: Explore Text Through Multiple Modalities
Exploring text through multiple modalities is a teaching strategy that uses different modes of communication to help students learn. It involves presenting content in a way that engages multiple sensory systems and learning styles simultaneously. In DRJC language this means making primary text accessible to learners by using multiple modalities, such as visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. Learners will lead the discovery and will be encouraged to demonstrate their understanding through creative expression.
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Rebecca Milder is the Founding Director of the Institute for Jewish Enrichment, which offers a mindset and methodologies for raising the child’s voice in Jewish learning. The Institute for Jewish Enrichment operates a laboratory Sunday and afterschool in Hyde Park, Chicago, and shares its educational approach nationwide through workshops, training, and coaching. A veteran Jewish educator, Milder’s leadership experience includes formal and informal educational work across diverse Jewish settings, centered on creating pathways for Jews of all ages to recognize themselves as powerful agents in a dynamic Judaism.
Milder was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, earned a Masters of Arts in Educational Administration from Teachers College at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Milder is a graduate of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute and Mandel Educational Leadership Program and holds a certificate in Family Education from Hebrew College. Milder enjoys hiking and playing music with her family, and, along with her husband and children, she is an enthusiastic martial artist.
The Institute for Jewish Enrichment envisions a world in which the child’s voice is cherished as essential to the vitality of Jewish life. We pioneer, research, and advance an educational approach in which a child’s Jewish learning is fully entwined with their growth as a compassionate, courageous, connected individual.
