MANAGING THE NEW SIDDUR PROGRAM
The Educational Director's Guide
By Terry Kaye

Attention, Directors of Education and Hebrew Coordinators: Use this manual to organize and manage your New Siddur Program Hebrew curriculum--and successfully meet the unique goals of your school. A comprehensive, hands-on guide to managing the best-selling Hebrew program in North America. Use this management guide to: Customize The New Siddur Program for your school. You will want to adapt The New Siddur Program to fit your specific needs. Discover practical techniques for personalizing the program, including sample classroom sessions to help teachers complete each book in just the right amount of time. Assess student progress in the program. Managing The New Siddur Program includes a test for every prayer in the series, providing the educator with a road map of what the students should learn in each chapter while evaluating progress in key areas like grammatical structure, vocabulary, and prayer concepts. Support and motivate your teachers. Give your teachers the tools they need for effective classroom instruction, including games to enliven the classroom, a management formula to help teachers finish the textbook on time, tips on each chapter's most important points, and suggestions on how to get the most out of the Teacher's Editions. Acquaint parents and school board members with your Hebrew program. All the information you'll need to explain The New Siddur Program to parents and the board is at your fingertips--the purpose of the series, its pedagogic objectives, and key milestones. Write the goals for your Hebrew curriculum. A detailed listing of the prayers, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and key prayer concepts taught in each volume of the series enables you to itemize the skills students should acquire at each grade level. Introduce holiday enrichment to your Hebrew program. The guide contains "Holiday Enrichment" sheets--with holiday prayers, blessings, songs, and holiday concepts--to duplicate and send home with students. Effortless mastery of The New Siddur Program, in one authoritative volume.