Curriculum

=Curriculum (Home)=

Grade-Specific Curriculum

 * ===Section=== || ===Description=== || ===Grades=== ||  ||   ||
 * Lower || Being secular, humanistic and Jewish || PreK/K || 1st || 2nd ||
 * Middle || History of the Jews || 3rd || 4th || 5th || 6th ||
 * Upper || The Jewish Adult || 7th || 8th || 9th ||

Supplemental Activities

 * ===Activity=== || ===Description=== ||
 * Eco Jews || Activities to repair the world relating to ecology ||
 * Social Action || Acting to increase social justice and social well-being in the world ||
 * WOW 2008 || Word of the week for 2008 - 2009 ||

Supplemental Documents

 * ===Name=== || ===Description=== ||
 * Network of Jewish Beliefs (Annotations) || 3000 Years of Jewish history on 1 page ||
 * [[file:folkshuleducation/Not Neutral to God.pdf|Not Neutral to God.pdf]] || Why what and how we teach is not God-neutral ||
 * [[file:folkshuleducation/Dealing with God.pdf|Dealing with God.pdf]] || How to deal with God and other Teacher FAQ's ||

Supplemental Talks/Lessons

 * ===Name=== || ===Description=== ||
 * Early History of the Jews || Introduction to Early History and use of chart Network of Jewish Varieties ||
 * Comparative Religion || Discussion with Jehovah's Witnesses ||

=__**Structure of Folkshul Grade-Specific Lesson Plans**__=
 * (All grade-specific lesson plans should have the form shown below and at a minimum, include title, goals, materials and close the lesson. Please also include as many of the other sections as possible though some kinds of lessons may not use all of them**)

1. **Gain attention of learners:** (Warm up to get students interested in topic) 2. **Relevant past learning:** (brief review of previous learning relevant to the topic) 3. **Introduce new material:** (New material or links to new material. May also include background information for the teacher that is not presented to the class) 4. **Provide guided practice:** (Demonstration and guided practice for activity that uses/expands on new material) 5. **Provide independent practice:** (Activity that uses/expands on new material where students work independently of the teacher) 6. **Close the lesson:** (review and wrap-up of independent practice and important points of the lesson. Generate answer to parents' question "What did you learn today")
 * TITLE:** (1 sentence or less summarizing the goals and ideas for the lesson - should not include how the lesson will be done)
 * GOAL:** (list of specific goals for the lesson – should not include how the lesson will be done.)
 * MATERIALS:** (a list of materials needed for the lesson)
 * LESSON:**
 * REFERENCES:** (list of references, links and reading related to the lesson)
 * VOCABULARY:** list of important words to be used/defined during the lesson

All Lesson plans are meant as suggestions for teacher use. Using them ensures that the material intended for the class will be covered in an age-appropriate way and consistent with the school's values and beliefs. Some reasons for using modified or different lesson plans might be:


 * Tailor to the particular students in the class
 * Found better way to present material
 * Corrected errors in the content
 * Follow up on material from a previous lesson that the students found particularly interesting

Feedback from teachers on the lesson plans is always welcome and provides a way for continuous improvement.