Pedagogy
Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.
Pedagogy
The Sung, Spoken and Written Yiddish Word: Student Projects from the 2024 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program’s Intermediate Class
Students represent their voices, viewpoints and Yiddishes, through their final projects.
Aug 27, 2024
Pedagogy
Yiddish Learning by New Learners: Two Zines and Two Games Student Projects from the Steiner Program’s Intermediate Class
Examples of project-based learning in the intermediate Yiddish classroom, from the fabulous students of Rivke Margolis’s Intermediate Yiddish Class at the Steiner Program of the Yiddish Book Center, summer 2023.
Dec 12, 2023
Pedagogy
The Comet at the End of the World: An Online, Immersive, Conversational Lesson Plan about “Current Events” Using Digitized Yiddish Press Materials
Ri Turner shares the materials from a session for intermediate students over Zoon on astronomy reportage in the Yiddish press, which can serve as an example of how to identify digitized historical Yiddish materials around a particular theme, repackage them in a format that is accessible to intermediate students, and use them in an online teaching context to generate a conversation that is both historically rooted and contemporarily relevant.
Jun 06, 2022
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: Intermediate Yiddish
Yiddish language instructors share their thoughts about teaching Intermediate Yiddish.
Sep 14, 2017
Pedagogy
Invitation to Participate: Teaching Intermediate Yiddish
Calling all teachers of Intermediate Yiddish! Participate in our pedagogy poll.
Jun 06, 2017
Pedagogy
The Yiddish Radio Project: Lessons from the Intermediate Yiddish Language Classroom
The third in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. Here, Sunny Yudkoff discusses her use of radio broadcasts in her Yiddish courses.
Apr 19, 2017
Pedagogy
Games for Small Groups
In geveb is sharing a series of games for use in Yiddish language classes.
Nov 01, 2015