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February 15, 1991 - Image 41

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1991-02-15

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EDUCATION

Hebrew block letter
machine.

Teachers' Aide

Resoume
Center
gives local
educators
new tools
for their
classrooms.

SUSAN GRANT

Staff Writer

W

hen Channa Green-
field and Flo Ziffer
needed new ideas
and materials for their
Akiva Hebrew Day School
classrooms, they turned to
the Agency For Jewish Edu-
cation Resource Center for
assistance.
After her trip to the center,
Mrs. Greenfield returned to
her first grade students with
Sukkah decoration patterns
and a game to make
teaching Hebrew numerals
fun. Her classroom bulletin
board is also decorated with
brightly colored Hebrew
letters thanks to one of the
center's most popular items,
a Hebrew block letter
machine.
"It has things to offer that
I can use for first grade in a
day school. I wish it would be
open in the evening so it
would be more accessible,"
Mrs. Greenfield said. "I
would go again. It's a very
nice idea with lots of
possibilities. There is a need
for a resource center in our
community."
Although it didn't offi-
cially open until this week,
Mrs. Greenfield and Mrs. Zi-
ffer weren't the only Jewish
educators who took advan-
tage of the Resource Center
at the Agency For Jewish
Education before its debut.
Yeshivat Darchei Torah

teachers have used the block
letter machine, while other
educators, mainly from the
Agency For Jewish Edu-
cation, sought material from
the center.
After almost two years of
planning, what was once a
storage area adjacent to the
Midrasha Library has been
turned into a place where
Jewish educators can seek
new ways of teaching tradi-
tional ideas to their
students.
"What we want to do is
create a new direction in
Jewish education," said
Judy Silberg Loebl, director
of special programs.
A glance around the room
reveals the latest innova-
tions in Jewish education.
On one bulletin board with
the heading "Learning with
games can be fun," educators
will discover five or six lam-
inated hand-designed games
on Israel and other Jewish
issues. On a nearby shelf sit
board games recently pur-
chased at Jewish educators'
conferences. In another
corner are colorful posters
depicting Israeli cities and
Jewish themes. Videotapes
are visible in the front of the
room. In the rear is a com-
puter where many of the
Resource Center items are
being cataloged for easy
access. Director Renee Wohl
and Ms. Silberg Loebl
haven't counted but assume
they have almost 1,000
items teachers, program di-

into the center and check out
games, workbooks,
videotapes and posters, use
the Hebrew block letter
machine, as well as purchase
items to create their own
games and class materials,
Ms. Wohl said. Some items
are not specifically for Jew-
ish educators, especially
among the videos and
workbooks, but can be ap-
plied to classrooms in both
afternoon and day schools.
"We're offering not just
equipment and materials,
we are offering a kind of ser-
vice," she said. "We will in-

rectors, youth leaders and
principals can use to
enhance their students' edu-
cation.
Ms. Wohl and Ms. Silberg
Loebl began searching for
materials almost two years
ago when Detroit Jewish
educators agreed to finan-
cially support a teacher
resource center as an addi-
tional classroom tool. After
traveling to similar resource
centers in Chicago, Wash-
ington, D.C., and Philadel-
phia, the pair got to work.

Educators can now come

Judy Silberg Loebl and Renee Wohl
help teachers Sarah Eisenberger and
Hadassah Butrimovitz.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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