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Temple and synagogue Sun- The Morning Spiritual Exercise
alking through the halls
of Temple Israel on day programs closed for the day Program."
The program then launched
Sunday morning was so teachers could attend.
One reason for the larger en- into the first set of 20 workshops.
an experience in Jewish
rollment was the expanded of- Covering topics as diverse as
education.
More than 450 temple and syn- ferings in seminar topics. Most of teaching Torah through the arts
agogue educators from across the the subject expansion was di- and teaching with sign language,
state crammed into the temple's rected to early childhood educa- the sessions lasted nearly an hour
and a half.
classrooms as they took part in tors, she said.
the second annual
NIRIM Jewish Educa-
tors Conference. As
they did, different
sounds leaked from the
rooms.
In one hallway,
Robert Weiner, the na-
tional song leader for
the North American
Federation of Temple
Youth, could be heard
singing along with his
class. Across from him,
Linda Steinger's class
giggled and danced as
they learned how to
teach Torah through
movement.
Further down an-
other hall, Michael
Mellen led a squirmy
bunch of teen-aged
teaching assistants in
different learning ex-
ercises for them to uti- Presenter Julia Greenblatt Is questioned by Barbara Dorfman.
lize with their younger
charges.
The second set of workshops
"They are a part of the greater
The sounds — and the partic-
ipation — pleased Shawn Locke, community of educators," Ms. followed a half-hour lunch.
Ferne Young, a teacher at
conference coordinator and di- Locke said of the pre-kinder-
garten educators. "We re- Temple Shir Shalom, said she
alized that we are not uses a lot of what she learns at
complete without them." NIRIM in the classroom.
"I would say that I was told to
The conference began
with a continental break- come but that wouldn't be fair. I
fast followed by a like coming to these programs,"
communal text study. she said. "There is always some-
Rabbi Moshe Tutnauer thing new to learn."
"It is well worth the trip," said
presented the subject,
"Waking up Jewishly: Mary Etta Moore. She traveled
from Kalamazoo to teach
a class about using paper-
cutting techniques to un-
derstand Jewish festivals.
"We want to be here be-
cause the teachers want to
learn."
The conference repre-
sents half of the annual
NIRIM offerings. Alto-
gether 80 seminars are of-
rector of school services for the
fered throughout the
Agency for Jewish Education.
school year for teachers at
Enrollment was up from 350
synagogues and temples
teachers who participated last
in the Detroit metropoli-
year.
tan area. ❑
"This shows that there is a real
desire to make the classroom
Far Left: Rabbi Moshe
more exciting, more.alive," she
Tutnauer lectures on
said. 'It is amazing to see this lev-
covenants.
el of enthusiasm. These teachers -
Left: Emma Kleerekoper
are voluntarily participating in
listens in a seminar.
these workshops."

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