|
6TH BIENNIAL AUSTRALIAN JEWISH EDUCATORS’ CONFERENCE ISRAEL@60
"BROADENING HORIZONS:
Ensuring a Bright Future for Jewish Education in Australia"
THE MAJOR EVENT IN JEWISH EDUCATION
IN AUSTRALIA!
Bialik College, Melbourne
24-25 August 2008
Join educators from across Australia and New Zealand taking part in a dynamic, informative and innovative conference. Choose from 12 different streams with top international, interstate and local presenters.
Take up the opportunity to network with colleagues and professionals pooling thoughts, ideas and practical classroom methodologies.
∞ Conference Streams
∞ Overseas Presenters
∞ Local Presenters
∞ Conference Registration
∞ Conference Schedule
∞ Post Conference
∞ Support
Conference Streams
∞ Text
∞ History
∞ Holocaust Studies
∞ Israel Studies
∞ Hebrew
∞ Integration of Secular and Jewish Studies
∞ Jewish Values
∞ Early Childhood
∞ Methodology and Contemporary Issues
∞ Pedagogy
∞ Yiddish
∞ Leadership (for school principals, senior leadership and board members)
Overseas Presenters
Chaim Fischgrund - Executive Director of the Alexander Muss Institute for Israel Education and headmaster of the Alexander Muss High School in Israel; expert teacher of History and Tanach; former shaliach in South Africa.
Robbie Gringras - A successful international theatre artist whose Jewish plays have performed globally and on the West End; an educational consultant, graduate of the prestigious Jerusalem Fellows program.
Margalit Kavenstock - Creator and currently training & support coordinator of Chalav u’Dvash Project at the Department for Jewish Zionist Education of the Jewish Agency for Israel; an expert both as an early childhood educator and a Hebrew teacher.
Chana Pinchasi - Former educational shlicha in Toronto, and teacher at the Ma’ale Film School in Jerusalem; currently a doctoral student in Gender studies and involved in establishing a new high school for girls in Jerusalem.
Rav Ronen Neuwirth - directs the overseas programs of Yeshivat Hesder, Petach Tikva and is the overseas department director of Tzohar, a rabbinical organisation which aims at building bridges between the world of Torah Judaism and the community at large; recently appointed as the Rabbi of Ohel Ari Congregation in Ra'annana; teaches at various seminaries.
Dr. Alex Pomson - A senior lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University; one of the mentors for the ZFA Teaching Israel Project introduced in Australian Jewish Day Schools.
Tamara Wassner-Rich
Originally from NSW, Tamara is currently working at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, teaching/developing online courses, lecturing and conducting museum tours.
And Keynote Speaker:
Naomi Ragen
Over the past fifteen years, author and playwright Naomi Ragen has quietly become one of the Jewish world’s most controversial and most read novelists and political commentators. An American born in New York, she has lived and worked in Jerusalem for the past 38 years and is the author of seven international bestsellers, an award winning play, and an influential and widely-read internet website.
Local Presenters
Together with the high-calibre Israeli presenters, local presenters play a key role in creating what is traditionally a dynamic, informative and innovative conference.
In 2008, we have secured over 40 local presenters.
Conference Registration
Conference participants include school lay leadership, principals, heads of departments and educators from 22 Jewish educational institutions across Australia and New Zealand for the two-day professional development conference.
The invitation to participate is also open to Education Officers of ZFA affiliates and other Jewish communal educators.
School Registration
∞ Victoria Information
∞ Victoria Application
∞ Interstate Information
∞ Interstate Application
General Registration
∞ Victoria Information
∞ Victoria Application
∞ Interstate Information
∞ Interstate Application
Note for interstate accommodation:
The ZFA has now set aside accommodation at a second location as original rooms were quickly snapped up. Click here for the updated accommodation option.
Feel free to contact switkin@zfa.com.au for more information on registration.
Conference Schedule
See below the FINAL conference timetables.
Sunday August 24- Leadership Stream
Sunday August 24 - Main Conference
Monday August 25 - Main Conference
Tuesday August 26 - 'Teaching Israel' Seminar
It is just a taste of our 9 international presenters and over 40 local presenters, who will cover a diverse range of current topics and bring innovative, dynamic practical applications to these subject matters.
Please click here for expanded session and presenter details.
Develop your scope! In light of our theme ‘Broadening Horizons’ - we encourage everyone to look beyond the content of their usual one or two streams and explore what else is on offer.
Post Conference
In reflecting on the conference, please click on the links below to:
"ZFA Gathers Israeli, Australian Educators in Melbourne"
A post-conference report by the Australian Jewish News (29 August)
"The Eternal Flame of Jewish Education"
Op-ed by ZFA Associate Director and Conference Coordinator, Dara Podjarski
Highlights and Reflections
A compilation of feedback from conference participants
Pictures from the conference
Scroll down underneath the menu on the left-hand side. Click on 'Client Login' and enter zfa2488
Farewell Address
Speech by Sima Guttman, concluding her 3-year role as ZFA Educational Consultant and Jewish Agency Shlicha
With the support of:
∞ Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme
∞ The Department for Jewish Education, Jewish Agency for Israel
∞ The Department for Zionist Activities, World Zionist Organisation
∞ The Aliyah Department
∞ Bialik College, hosts of the 2008 Educators Conference
| |
|