Machon L'Morim: Bereshit: Lessons Learned

Publication Date: January 2000

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Ilene C. Vogelstein

Research Area: Education

Keywords: Employment; Preschools; Jewish Education

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Machon L'Morim: Bereshit is a professional development school change initiative for early childhood educators whose goals are to develop Jewishly knowledgeable personnel and educational environments that infuse every aspect of the early childhood experience with Jewish values, concepts and Hebrew vocabulary. The most critical findings indicate that teachers are not able to take new information from Torah L'Shema classes and translate it into developmentally appropriate activities without training and that the program is most successful when it involves the entire faculty of a school for a five-year period.