Overarching Essential Questions
Framework of overarching essential questions for Chumash and Navi: values, mitzvot, narrative ethics; growth after failure and accountability; differences between personal and communal sin; models and critiques of leadership; divine covenant, justice, mercy, and redemption; tensions between command and emotion; and prophecy’s role in shaping Israel’s moral conscience and society.
Formative Assessments
These formative assessments can be used in any subject, and we’ve also included space to add what areas of content and what skill you’re assessing as well as what meaning you hope your students derive from learning.
Choice Menu for Learning
These choices are based on the degree of challenge. The exemplars we are sharing are for Jewish texts, but this strategy can applied to almost any academic discipline. Students can choose or teachers can direct students to start with the learning activity with a moderate, medium or high degree of challenge. Note that students are being asked to do the learning work and assess what they have learned, rather than teachers doing the work for them. Teacher can allow students to work with a teacher, a partner or individually for most of the activities.
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How to Build Better, More Effective Tests and Quizzes
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