Prizmah Podcasts: What Do Students Really Think of High School Talmud?
KC Media Type
Research
Knowledge Topics
Research, Teaching and Learning
Date
Network to Learn
Educational Innovation
Research Encounter series
Dr. Arielle Levites Rabbi Jethro Berkman
Dr. Arielle Levites, managing director of CASJE, Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education, and Rabbi Jethro Berkman, dean of Jewish education at Gann Academy in Waltham, Massachusetts, reflect upon the findings of a study into student responses to their Talmud education. They consider the possible shortcomings of Talmud curriculum and pedagogy and discuss other ways that schools might approach the teaching of rabbinics.