Workshops for Educators

ANU ED, the division of Education for and by Educators at the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv, is proud to present our first series of free educational workshops for educators. 

The key elements of each session include:

• Topics of Jewish Peoplehood and Belonging
• Content must be applicable right away in classrooms and informal educational settings
• The webinar must be interactive in some way – otherwise it could have been recorded!

 All sessions will be on Tuesdays at 8:00 PM Israel time, 1:00 PM EST. Our FIRST workshop is Sept. 17th, and our own ANU ED master educators will share three “to go” ideas that you can bring to your classrooms the next day!

To sign up for any of these webinars, fill out this Google form and we will send you a Zoom invitation before each event. (You can sign up for as many as you want!)

Liron Biran-Nisenholz will take you through the cultural stories behind our very own family albums. Together we'll see how we can use the family pictures we all have as pedagogical tools for studying the culture in which they were taken.

Sharon Hayat will take an element from the museum collection and give you an example of how to use a museum item for an engaging, multi-disciplinary lesson of discovery for your students. Sharon will take the Shannon Street music video and go through how to use the people mentioned in the song as research models for students. Can also use it to discuss who is not included in the song - who they would choose to include. What disciplines are missing? What people are missing? How do you decide who is Jewish to include? How do we decide who is famous enough to include? Different avenues to use the "artifact" to create a lesson for students.

Lindsay Shapiro will bring synagogues to life using 4 examples of Jewish prayer spaces from across time and around the globe. We will delve into how the physical space Jews use for prayer, gathering, study and celebration tells a story of who they are and who they long to be. This session will share methodology and examples of fostering a conversation with your students on examining their own personal Jewish lives. What stories do objects in their own synagogues, schools or homes tell? How can we use physical spaces to decode stories from the past? 

To sign up for any of these webinars, fill out this Google form and we will send you a Zoom invitation before each event.

• Sept. 17: Led by the ANU ED staff: Shaon Hayat, Lindsay Shapiro and Liron Biran: Three discussions to bring to your classrooms, Shabbat tables and youth groups
• Oct. 8th: Rabbi Leor Sinai (Speaker & Educator Consultant): As educators we will attempt to understand Israel educational experiences after October 7th.  
• Nov. 12: Howard Blas (National Ramah Tikvah Network of the National Ramah Commission): "Creating Meaningful B'nai Mitzvah Celebrations for People with Disabilities”: B'nai mitzvah for all--how to mark this special life cycle event for people with disabilities 
• Dec. 10: Marta Eichelberger-Jankowska (Taube Center for Jewish Heritage in Poland): -  Investigate the design of a particular synagogue to learn its connections to different periods in Jewish tradition and history -thus exploring complex ways of the sense of belonging and how it manifested in our communities. 
• Jan. 7: Osnat Fox (Jewish Agency):  Resilience Building Through Peoplehood Education What are the ways in which education can and needs to build strong, resilient individuals and communities at this point in time? We established three core themes of resilience building - each has a set of ideas and pedagogical principles and tangible tactics- methodologies that can be used.  
• Feb. 11: (The Rabbi Sacks Legacy): "Rabbi Sacks: Teaching Judaism and Jewish Identity," The ‘Ten Paths to God’ curriculum is a 10-unit adaptable curriculum on Judaism and Jewish identity based on traditional sources and the teachings of Rabbi Sacks. 
• March 11: Shuvi Hoffman (National Library of Israel): Crafting Our Story Explore Haggadot and other primary sources that reflect our shared story, and also demonstrate the diverse mosaic of Jewish peoplehood. Engage in activities that model how to use primary sources for explorative and experiential learning to inspire learners to add their chapter to our ongoing story

Please be in touch with Rachel Dratch, Director of Global Education, for more information.

rachel@anumuseum.org.il