Enrichment@Maayanot

By: Rabbi Donny Besser, Mrs. Rivka Kahan
from Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School

Categories:
Differentiated Instruction, Risk Taking and Failure

Subject(s) of entry:
Art, Computer Science, Gemara, Halacha, History, Ivrit, Literature, Math, Mishnah, Music, Science, Tanach

Pedagogy:
PBL - project based learning

Grade(s) to which this was taught:
10-12

Grade(s) for which this will be useful:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Middle school, High school

To meet the educational needs of our strongest students, who are not fully sufficiently challenged by the Honors classroom we instituted an enrichment program. Each student chooses two projects (bekiut and b'iyun) to work on over the course of the year. The handful of students participating across the grades, through specially geared programming form a peer community of motivated achievers who push each other to discover and reach their full potential.

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Note, while our program is for Judaic Studies, the model is replicable in other subject areas.