This training introduces teachers to the Ji Tap platform, including interactive digital games that explore Hebrew letters, reading, holidays, and more. Teachers learn to feel comfortable finding and assigning Ji Tap activities to individual students and classes and integrating different activities for personalized student learning for in-person social-distancing learning and for synchronous and asynchronous online learning.
Professional Development
Training Workshops
Ji provides a host of training opportunities for teachers to learn the skills they need to teach this fall,
led by highly sought after professional experts in their fields.
Designing Digital Learning Activities
A series of escalating workshops that develop the skills teachers need to master the Ji Tap creator tool generating online learning activities for Judaic/ Hebrew curriculum to share and assign to students. Teachers learn design theory to create games that meet their learning objectives to fit into preexisting lessons or different types of games to gamify and flip instruction for a more student-centered experience.
Teaching & Learning Online
This workshop enables teachers to adapt their teaching to support online learning. Teachers will explore a variety of instructional approaches and online learning tools. They will understand how to engage their learners online, create a supportive learning environment, utilize a mix of learning tools for better engagement, and provide ongoing feedback. Teachers will practice crafting lesson plans and instructional methods designed to optimize online learning.
