Description:

Curriculum and Program Developer

Position to commence immediately

The Toronto Heschel School Seeks a Dynamic Jewish Educator to Join its Teacher Performance and Learning Studio Team

We are:

• An Innovative Jewish Day School with classes from JK to Grade 8
• Pluralistic and Egalitarian within Halakhah
• Implementing integrated Jewish/General Studies Curricula
• Employing arts-based curricula and methods
• Dedicated to a collaborative teaching model
• Committed to Teaching for Understanding (Harvard University model)
• Committed to a strong environmental ethos

You are:

• Passionate about advancing progressive learning through a Jewish lens.
• A creative and flexible thinker who can meet deadlines, work with specific criteria, and collaborate on innovative projects within clearly defined parameters.
• An experienced educator with proven ability to develop user-ready learning programs and materials through the whole development cycle: conceptualization, development of teacher guides and student materials, guiding faculty in use of materials; iterative revision of materials based on evaluation of their efficacy.
• Familiar with progressive learning methods including, interdisciplinary learning, learning through the Arts, inductive / discovery-based learning, Big Ideas learning, project-based learning.
• Familiar with the workings of participatory democracy at a middle school age level; familiar with “writing for thinking.”
• An educator with a significant knowledge base of Israel and the ability to write social science curricula that integrates this knowledge with core academic skills such as writing and analyzing
• A strong writer in English and/or Hebrew with excellent skills in word processing, PowerPoint, and other software required for curriculum and program development.