Chesed Curriculum 2.0

In the course of the Fellowship, I have been writing a Chesed curriculum for my next year’s second- and third-graders. The first four months of the year will be designated as Research, and during the rest of the year, the students will actually perform a significant Chesed Exploration (project). The groundwork for the curriculum, and the Exploration, itself, will be greatly enhanced by the use of technology at all levels.

The skills I am learning in the CJPTTFellowship have allowed me to create a curriculum that uses technology in a variety of ways. I am now better able to:

• Launch lessons in an exciting way
• Give students an opportunity to catch up with lessons they’ve missed either in class or at home
• Provide easy access to Torah text – and have the students manipulate it
• Play a game with to increase their familiarity with Jewish customs
• Survey parents about their ideas, to inform our choice of project
• Allow students to edit their writing over a period of weeks
• Involve the students in teaching each other
• Teach students particular apps and show them examples of how to use them
• Encourage students to correspond with others electronically
• Show students the power of video to make social connections to the elderly
• Help kids make a budget and map out ideas for a project
• Communicate with students and parents through a class wiki
• Share a planning document with my co-teacher
• Streamline both my planning and documentation

I’m confident that the it will be an exciting and fulfilling year for both my students and me!