The Certificate Program for Jewish Day School Educators is structured around the following goals:
• to engage educators in a personal and professional Jewish journey
• to deepen teachers’ content knowledge in areas of Jewish studies
• to offer pedagogical skills– innovative approaches to Jewish subjects, new tech approaches, interactive and inclusive methods, learner-centered experiential methodologies
Curriculum by Semester
(Courses and timing may be subject to change)
Summer Semester 2020 (Online, 90 hours)
Teaching Jewish Prayer
Lecturer: Avi (Seth) Kadish, PhD
Jewish Holidays – Between Content and Ceremonies
Lecturer: Elisabeth Goldwyn, PhD
Fall Semester – October 2020 – January 2021 (Online, 300 hours)
Jewish Holidays – Between content and ceremonies – Part II
Elisabeth Goldwyn, PhD
Teaching Tanakh
Rabbi Dr. Iris Yaniv
Pedagogy of Teaching Jewish and Israeli Culture in the Diaspora
Lori Abramson, MAJE
Teaching Practicum (in your own school with online pedagogical supervision from Oranim)
Pedagogic Advisors: Dr. Nikki Aharonian, Dr. David Netzer, Lori Abramson, MAJE
Spring Semester – March 2021 – June 2021 (Online, 300 hours)
Introduction to Teaching Jewish History, Part I
Hebrew as a Second Language, Part I
How We Learn Rabbinic Literature
Developing Jewish Leadership through Jewish Education
Teaching Practicum (in your own school with online pedagogical supervision from Oranim)
Pedagogic Advisors: Dr. Nikki Aharonian, Dr. David Netzer, Lori Abramson, MAJE
Summer Semester – July 2021 (three weeks at Oranim College, 180 hours)
Didactics of Teaching Texts, Philosophy, Culture and Peoplehood
History of Israel
The Cultural Map of Israel
The Holy Land: Israel through the Prism of the Bible and Rabbinics
Hebrew as a Second Language, Part II
Fall Semester – October 2021 – January 2022 (Online, 90 hours)
Educating for Jewish Peoplehood
Lori Abramson, MAJE
Introduction to Teaching Jewish History – Part II
From Philo to Leibowitz: The Texts of our Great Philosophers