Susan Yammer serves as co-director of Pardes’s JSITT (Jewish Studies In-Service Teacher Training) program, teaching pedagogy and mentoring educators as they develop their teaching practice and professional identity.
Before making aliyah in 2007, Susan spent more than thirty years working in Jewish education in the United States as a classroom teacher, educational director, and teaching mentor in Jewish day schools, afternoon Hebrew schools, and summer camps. She holds a Master’s Degree in Jewish Education and is a recipient of the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.
Discussion, one of the cornerstones of classroom interaction, is all too often used loosely to include almost all classroom interaction about course content. However, as James T. Dillon demonstrates in his book Using Discussion in Classrooms, moderating a classroom discussion…
Pardes Center for Jewish Educators, Classroom Techniques/Activities, Positive Classroom Culture