We invite you to spend
a few moments browsing the Pedagogic Center's services and facilities.
Explore together with us the best in Jewish Education, discover its
trends, help shape its future.
Major Vectors
The Pedagogic Center is a specialist unit within the
Department for Jewish Education, JAFI. It offers professional support
and development services to the Department's educational divisions and
geographical desks, as well as to Jewish educators and lay leaders world-wide
in both formal and informal education:
- Training
- Resourcing
- Consultation
- Production.
We cover resources in formal and informal Jewish education,
with a particular emphasis on materials for youth, students, adults
and the educators themselves - especially in the areas of:
- Israel & Zionism
- Current Events
- Jewish and Israel Calendar
- Jewish life and values.
This is an inter-unit project coordinated by the Pedagogic
Center. It aims to enhance Jewish education worldwide by creating hands-on
services which are equally accessible to Jewish educators at the center
and the periphery of the Jewish world, making priority and quality educational
materials available on the Internet.
Internet Advantages:
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Curricular enhancement:
All the materials appear in an applied form - as checklists, lesson
plans, programming ideas, complete with their own source materials.
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A structured Israel-Diaspora service:
The materials reach their destination via the website. Individuals
or agencies interested can also join discussion and professional
Forums, evaluate and exchange resources.
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Current Issues:
Our ongoing Current Issues production for Internet offers a valuable,
real-time response to Jewish educational needs world-wide.
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Real-time consultation services:
Shlichim, schools, students, youth organizations, and the broader
public obtain real-time answers from our helpdesk. On-site resources,
educational guidance and library search services are available to
any inquirer from any agency and location via e-mail, fax and airmail.
Curricular Agenda Online
Major and Annual Themes
A focused curricular aid for the special programs in the annual theme,
with hands-on programming tools and materials for the educator. Sections
of the website have been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Italian, German and Russian.
Intranet Initiatives
The Center has engaged in the process of developing and providing
Intranet facilities for affiliated and partnership groups, in order
to offer an improved platform for communication, discussion and didactic
purposes.
A dynamic worldwide dialogue targeted to involve both formal and informal
educational frameworks in Israel and the Diaspora in professionally
moderated, in-depth, grass-roots discussion on major issues of the Jewish-Israel
agenda, packaged into tracks of structured activities with online interchange
and an online plenary debate.
This sector of operations is fast becoming an expression of Jewish
electronic citizenship and is moving into a new series of online events,
using the Virtual-Real-Virtual (VRV) encounter formula.
A new venture in Jewish internet, this project is designed to map,
link and analyze Jewish educational resourcing available in the global
network as initiatives and models of best practice. It includes a harvest
search facility, acts as a communication forum for practitioner-users
and provides a network of specialists with guidance to visitors and
support for the project's development.
DataJEM is an annotated bibliography of Jewish educational materials
to help you identify appropriate materials for your needs. The new DataJEM
is now accessible on-line, with extensive and continual updates to offer
vastly improved resource information to Jewish educators wherever they
may be. Educators and education agencies are also invited to contribute
resources for review.
Resourcing for You
Resources are our byword, in any medium.
Library
Our redesigned library facilities aim to offer the optimal approach
for educational program research, with extensive collections of ready-made
activities, cuttings files by topic, specialist books in major thematic
areas. Feel comfortable as you work on your own with as much bibliographic
assistance from our experienced staff as you choose! Materials are available
in Ivrit, English, Spanish and French; more limited collections exist
in Portuguese, Italian, German... Telephone: 972-2-621 6029; Helpdesk:
pedagog@jajz-ed.org.il.
Resource Center
An on-site facility for all areas of program and staff development,
resourcing and creation of educational settings, offering training and
hands-on resources, together with professional expertise, in conjunction
with the entire Education Department. Our pre- or in-service training
facilities are open to Jewish educators from Israel and the Diaspora
- staff, teachers, shlichim, youth and lay leaders under any auspices.
Build your activities, or lessons; prepare or hold presentations and
workshops; acquire methodology by exploring the varied and extensive
multi-media materials and methodology around your focal issues - and
take home a complete, purpose-designed pack for your needs. Our experienced
staff is available for groups or individual consultation by appointment
on 972-2-6216 132, or via the helpdesk on pedagog@jajz-ed.org.il..
Database Facilities for Educators
The Center has engaged in the compilation and coordination of educational
databases. This comes in response to a growing need for greater efficiency
in planning and targeting services to schools and communities, which
require up-to-date information on Jewish education and its resources
worldwide.
Contact us:
The Pedagogic Center,
The Department for Jewish Zionist Education,
Kiryat Moriah,
Rehov Ha'askan 3,
Jerusalem 93780
E-mail Helpdesk: pedagog@jajz-ed.org.il.
URL: http://www.jajz-ed.org.il
Fax: 972-2-621 6133 Tel: 972-2-621 6059