Note: This product is printed when you order it. When you include this product your order will take 5-7 additional days to ship.¬+¬+This complete and comprehensive resource for teachers new and experienced alike offers a "big picture" look at the goals of Jewish education.

The themes are broken up into five categories: food, animals, the world around, all about me, and popular children's book and authors. Highlights some of the most common, relevant values that could be associated with each theme. Also attempts to make Israel as real and relevant as possible, by highlighting aspects of Israeli life and culture that expand the theme at hand.

Written in a warm and understanding tone, this guide takes the best in secular early childhood education and applies it to Jewish early childhood education. With extensive bibliographies as well as background information for teachers, individual chapters review developmentally appropriate practice, anti-bias education, storytelling, music, Jewish thematic units, reaching out to interfaith families, keeping kosher at school, and much more.

The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century. The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections: Vision and Practice: focusing on issues of philosophy, identity and planning –the big issues of Jewish Education. Teaching and Learning: focusing on areas of curriculum and engagement Applications, focusing on the ways that Jewish Education is transmitted in particular contexts, both formal and informal, for children and adults. Geographical, focusing on historical, demographic, social and other issues that are specific to a region or where an issue or range of issues can be compared and contrasted between two or more locations. This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals.

Taking into account the "New knowledge of child nature and life [circa 1919]", the author provides a hands-on teaching manual for leaders of grades K-8. an interesting book for the student of Jewish educational history, as one catches glimmers of the stirrings of methods still in use today. it was written when high reform was the predominant ideology of the reform movement in the United States.

Rabbinical students, young Jewish teachers and other young Jews give their personal answers to difficult questions about God.