Shira Iluz

• Bar Ilan University

This paper focuses on the teaching of Talmud in ultra-Orthodox (haredi) talmud torah schools and the achievement of students who were taught using traditional instructional methods, compared with the achievement of students instructed by teachers using the Rabbi Yeshayahu Weber learning skills instructional method. The uniqueness of this research s...

The Jewish ultra-orthodox (Haredi) Talmud Torah schools have been consistently resistant to the process of standardization in content, measurement, and evaluation, in contrast to the Israeli state education system which has progressed steadily in these areas. Talmud Torah schools are private elementary schools for ultra-orthodox boys. Studies are r...

Teachers’ beliefs regarding civil sanctity were studied in the context of their pedagogical activities regarding two Israeli national memorial days ‐ Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day. Interviews were conducted with 30 educators in six secular and six religious junior high schools with diverse populations and 12 memorial cere...

Based on the prerequisite role of teachers’ professional development for students’ progress, our study aimed to shift the DeSeCo (Definition and Selection of Competencies; OECD, 2002) theoretical model from students’ competencies for life challenges to teachers’ professional context by creating a reliable, valid questionnaire based on the three DeS...

This research investigated pedagogical beliefs of teachers of “sacred” school subjects, curricular topics that the school community deems culturally valued, unassailable and inviolate. Two hundred and fifty-five teachers of girls only who taught sacred or secular subjects in Jewish modern religious high schools responded to questionnaires focusing...

This research examines the purposes of education perceived by teacher education students preparing for a career in Israeli public religious schools. Participants were 164 men and 364 women in their first or final year of teacher education. They responded to questionnaires that explored educational purposes in four ways. Twenty-four students also we...