The Bet Am Shalom community is so proud to have an incredibly talented, warm, creative team of teachers!  If you have a teacher resource you'd like to share, please email Abby.  

Calendar for Teachers--check throughout the year for updates

Masa (Journey) Program

Torah La'am Resources for parents--directory of teachers, links to Hebrew reading practice, school closing info, parent manual and more.  Email Abby for login information.

Click here for Teachers' Guidelines

Reconstructionist Resources:

• Reconstructionism on One Foot by Rabbi Bronstein

• Teaching God from a Reconstructionist Perspective

• ritualwell.org shares new Jewish rituals

• Jewish Reconstructionist Movement Education Resources

• Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) resources

• Reconstructionist Approach to Halachah

• RRC 2015 animated video explaining Reconstructionist Judaism
   

Teacher Resources:

• Asking students questions on different levels to share a variety of perspectives

• Assessment strategies

• Becoming a Soulful Educator

• Being Inclusive

• Blessings for Food

• Blessing before Study: Laasok b'divrei Torah

• Building Community--including ice breakers

• Creating a Kehillah Kedoshah (Holy Community)

• End of Year Activities

• Guide for your madrich/a which you can personalize for your class--ask Abby for this document in word.

• Hebrew:

  • Hebrew reading practice on BAS member page

  • Strategies for Teaching Hebrew in Engaging Ways

  • Using modern Hebrew every class

• Israel:

  • General Resources about Israel 

  • Israel Parent Guide

  • Resources for educators

  • Six Lenses Response Curriculum from The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland

  • Tzedakah organizations supporting Israel

• Making Learning Relevant

• ​Places to give tzedakah with your class--try to tie into your Gemilut Chasadim focus or another part of your curriculum

• Project Based Learning: 

  • Behrman House PBL Blog 

  • Project Based Learning Overview

• Teaching Strategies

  • Dynamic Classroom Strategies

  • Ideas adapted from: Teach Breathe Learn by Meena Srinivasan

  • Social-emotional teaching strategies--terrific ideas here!

• Teaching Texts Resources

• Teaching Torah, God, and Spirituality

• Teaching Tefillah

• Websites

• Working with Madrichim