Discover the Behrman House Online Learning Center

A unique--and uniquely Jewish--21st century educational tool

There are so many resources online--if you have the time to search and the technical skills to adapt them for your school. Yet only one integrates existing, proven pedagogy and materials in Hebrew and Judaics with an easy-to-use, formatted online system that will help you develop innnovative aproaches to lifelong Jewish learning:

The Behrman House Online Learning Center

  • A searchable, Jewish multi-media resource library
  • A homework and Hebrew practice space
  • A communication device
  • A teacher prep resource
  • An assessment tool
  • A staff development resource
  • And MORE

MORE than online Hebrew, MORE that a generic online space, The Behrman House Online Learning Center is crafted specifically for the Jewish educator--and you don't need to be a technology wizard to use it.

The Behrman House Online Learning Center will help you:

1) Organize Your School

  • Bring your teachers and students together into a single community

  • Ensure compliance with your educational mission and goals

  • Try new models such as blended learning or the flipped classroom

As an educator in the Behrman House Online Learning Center, you will have your own dashboard with quick-click access to all the features of Online Learning Center. You will be able to:

  • create and monitor online classes
  • review student assessments
  • select and post multi-media materials
  • create staff development groups
  • post school-wide messages
  • control access

 

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2) Empower Teachers

  • Let teachers focus on their roles as Jewish mentors

  • Reduce prep time with direct access to relevant content

  • Create a learning community unconstrained by geography or time

Teachers in the Behrman House Online Learning will discover a designed, templated space that helps them simplify class preparation, letting them focus on students.

Teachers will be able to:

  • Directly access a growing library of Jewish multi-media content
  • Create engaging student experiences
  • Set permissions for student posting
  • Send out assignments and reminders
  • Extend class time with at-home practice
  • Track student progress in Hebrew

 

 

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3) Engage Students and Their Parents

  • Attract and engage today’s students

  • Build students' skills and fluency in Hebrew

  • Keep parents in the loop

Students in the Behrman House Online Learning Center will have their own personalized classroom spaces accessible from any computer. They will be able to:

  • practice Hebrew online
  • access multi-media material posted by the teacher
  • participate in moderated online discussions
  • organize class projects
  • create presentations
  • get school updates

 

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Want to learn how to navigate through the Online Learning Center? Click here to watch tutorial videos!

If you would like to find out more about how the Behrman House Learning Center can work in your school, please click here to contact Vicki Weber.

Multi-media Primer

 Alef Bet Quest

Coming to the Online Learning Center in January 2012