Circles of Jewish Virtues (Middot): A Community Building Activity that Can Transform the Traditional Classroom into a Jewish Community of Learners

When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices. Accordingly, our mentees should know about (a) the importance of transforming the traditional classroom into a Jewish community of cooperative learners and (b) specific learning activities for community building. Toward this end, we are sharing Circles of Jewish Virtues (Middot): A Community Building Activity that can help transform the classroom into a caring Jewish learning community.

Note: Refer to the procedure explained in the post for implementing My Jewish Joys.

On the next post we will share the third of four community building activities, The Circles of....