BabagaNewz Teacher Workshops

BabagaNewz Teacher Training Workshops offer exciting ideas to enhance the classroom curriculum by educating teachers and administrators on practical applications of the many aspects connected to the project: how to apply the wide-ranging content of BabagaNewz, how to incorporate Jewish values into their classroom curriculum, and how to foster their students’ Jewish identity within a secular world.

Workshops are presented by dynamic and professional educators.

Inspiring Creative Teaching with BabagaNewz
United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ
November 3, 2008
The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life

New Jersey Association of Jewish Day Schools Annual Conference
Kushner Hebrew Academy – Livingston, New Jersey
November 4, 2008
Spice Up Your Teaching This Year
Israel Over Sixty – The Celebration Continues

BabagaNewz Connects: E-lesson Plans, Virtual Tours and Online Jewish Games
Temple Tifereth Israel, Malden, MA
November 9, 2008

Introduction to BabagaNewz for Teachers
Temple Beth Sholom, Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas Congregational Schools
November 16, 2008

Introduction to BabagaNewz for Teachers
Las Vegas Day Schools
November 17, 2008

Introduction to BabagaNewz for Teachers
Battat Educational Resource Center – San Francisco, CA
November 18, 2008

Introduction to BabagaNewz for Teachers
Peninsula Learning Resource Center – Los Altos, CA
November 19, 2008

Israel at Sixty: The Celebration Continues
Community Coalition for Jewish Education
Albany, New York
November 23, 2008

Customized Conference Calls for Your School
BabagaNewz offers free customized conference calls- a one hour conference call with your faculty and an educator from our team to share ideas and strategies for teaching on a wide range of topics. Choose a Jewish values topic which you are working on in your school or choose from the following topics:

Israel@Sixty
BabagaNewz Holiday Resources for Teachers
Integrating Judaic Content into the General Studies Classroom with BabagaNewz
The BabagaNewz Teachers' Guide as a Resource for Professional Development

For more information or to schedule a call contact:
Lisa@BabagaNewz.com
617-581-6814

BabagaNewz, an innovative educational project initiated and funded by The AVI CHAI Foundation and published in partnership with Jewish Family and Life! is devoted to providing quality educational resources to help administrators and teachers make Jewish values an integral part of Jewish education. BabagaNewz has developed Teacher Training Workshops, devoted to educating administrators and teachers on how to incorporate the BabagaNewz magazine, teachers’ guide and web site into their classroom curriculum.

BabagaNewz Workshops are designed to improve administrators’ and classroom teachers’ ability to incorporate Jewish values into the curriculum by effectively using and integrating the different components of the BabagaNewz project. Workshops are presented by dynamic, professional educators who present creative approaches to using the content of BabagaNewz as a springboard for Jewish learning and to think more deeply about the issues that shape your students’ lives and the Jewish world. Using a step-by-step instructional model, workshops teach skills and introduce resources to make Jewish values relevant to your students and thereby reinforce their sense of Jewish identity.

BabagaNewz workshops offer participants a walk-through and model lessons on the various features of the magazine and include a detailed explanation of the purpose of the content within a classroom setting. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn how to use the BabagaNewz website to do further research and download materials for classroom instruction as well as offer students an interactive forum to further discuss topics and share opinions with students all over the world.