In almost all of the educational literature today you read about the concept of 21st Century skills. To boil it down, 21st Century skills are skills that students will need to be successful in life. Some of these skills include but are not limited to; critical thinking, collaboration, questioning, and analyzing. The literature also tells us that these skills need to be taught and they don’t come naturally to our students. With that in mind I have tried to create an environment in my class that pushes the students to think and ask questions about what we are learning. This is not easy but as I told the class on the first day I will help you and give whatever assistance you need but I will not allow the words “I Can’t “ to be said in my class.
One of the ways to help students learn these skills is to give them projects that are open ended and by giving them choices.
Now that we have finished the first Perek in Shemot I have assigned a Tic-Tac-Toe activity that gives the students nine different choices of activities which are open ended (There is no one right way to do it ) as an assessment for Perek Alef.
These projects are due next Friday.
I am confident that as we progress, your children will see the benefit of learning these important skills.
If you have any concerns as always please feel free to speak to me
Have a Great Shabbos
Rabbi Greenblatt
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