JewishGPS BJELA Categories Schmattegories Nov 2012

Arrival Activity
• As you come in … notice the five
posters on the wall.

• Grab a marker. Please write examples
or characteristics of the category
labeled on each poster.

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Categories Schmategories:
What Makes it So?

BJELA Religious School Educators’ Conference
November 11, 2012


Methods vs. Settings
• Setting – the location in which
the learning takes place

• Method – the pedagogy used to
impart the knowledge; the
technique the learner encounters


Informal Settings
infed: the Encyclopedia of Informal Education:

informal education is “the education of daily
living,” one can conclude that informal settings
are all the places you live your daily life: home,
community, grocery store, library, shopping mall,
restaurant, etc. They write, “This contrasts with
formal education which tends to take place in
special settings such as schools.” http
://www.infed.org/i-intro.htm


Jewish Informal
Education Settings
(according to Robyn)

• Summer Camp
• Youth Lounge
• Hotels
• Retreat Centers
• Geographic Location
(i.e. DC, NY, NOLA, Israel)
• Park
• Volunteer Site

Informal & Non-Formal
Education Methods
Tony Jeffs and Mark K. Smith

“…informal education is the lifelong
process in which people learn from
everyday experience … and non-
formal education is organized
education activity outside of formal
systems.”

Informal, Non-formal or Voluntary?
Setting or Method?

Jewish social scientist Bethamie Horowitz

Makes a distinction when she titles activities
typically called “informal” as “voluntary”
such as youth group, Israel trips, and Jewish
college programming.

(2000, June; rev. 2003). Connections and journeys: Assessing critical
opportunities for enhancing Jewish identity. Retrieved
from http://www.ujafedny.org/assets/documents/PDF/who-we-
are/Connections-And-Journeys-Opportunities-for-Enhancing-Jewish-
Identity.pdf

Experiential Education Theory Overview:
It all starts with Dewey

“In a certain sense everhas
“…the principle of continuity
“What he [the learner]
experiencethe way do something
learned in should of
of experience means that
to prepare a personin one
every experience bothlater
knowledge and skill for takes
experiences of a deeper and
up something from those
situation becomes an
more expansive quality. That is
instrument of understanding
which have gone before and
the very meaning of growth,
and dealing effectively with
modifies in some way the
continuity, reconstruction of
the situations which follow,”
quality of those which come
experience,” (p. 47).
(p. 44).
after,” (p. 35).


Theory Overview: Kolb
EBLS company was
founded in 1981 with
the goal to provide
ongoing quality
research and practice
on experiential
learning


Experiential Learning

David Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory (Kolb, 1984) JewishGPS, LLC • www.jewishgps.com

Example
Experiential Element Application
Activity Put toast in oven, set dial, and
toast
Reflection/Observation Toast is burnt; Toast tastes bad
I am not happy; I’m hungry
I made a mistake
Abstract Conceptualization Because I set the dial too high,
this was the result I got
Planning for Next Time Plan another meal that I need
toast, determine how much to
lower the dial, buy more bread,
clean out the toast
Activity Make another piece of toast, this
time with the determined lower
setting


Going DEEP
In 1999, the Experiential Training and Development Alliance published
The DEEP Document: The Definition, Ethics, and Exemplary Practices of
Experiential Training and Development.

What the DEEP document asserts in comparison to the others is
the difference between experiential education and experience-
based learning. “Experience-based learning (action alone)
becomes experiential when the elements of reflection (reflection
optimizes learning), transfer (transfer applies learning), and
support (support maintains transfer) are present.

(ETDA, p. 6, 1999). http://www.etdalliance.com/Resources/Documents/DEEP.pdf


Categories Schmattegories!
A Re-View
• Let’s look at the answers on the wall
– anything you want to disagree with
or challenge?
• Mis-use of “experiential” education
for experience-based education.


EXPERIENCING the Difference
Four-Corners Game: Jewish, Zionist/Zionism, Education/Educator, American
•This word describes my core personal identity
– Share one memory from your teen years that shaped your
core identity
•This word describes my core professional identity
– If a reporter were to describe your professional
achievements in Jewish education, what are three words
they would use.
•If my immediate family had to choose one of these words to
describe me, they would choose ….
– What is the moment you became a Jewish family? or What
is your first Jewish family memory?
•This is the most important aspect of my work
– If you were king/queen for a day, what would you decree
about Israel Education in your organization?


Simon Says/Follow the Leader
• Exodus 18:21 'But you must [also] seek out from among all the
people capable, God-fearing men - men of truth, who hate
injustice. You must then appoint them over [the people] as
leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and
leaders of tens.
• Isaiah 54:4 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader
and commander to the peoples.
• Genesis 33:13-14 [to Esau] 'My lord,' replied Jacob, 'you know
that the children are weak, and I have responsibility for the
nursing sheep and cattle. If they are driven hard for even one
day, all the sheep will die. Please go ahead of me, my lord. I will
lead my group slowly, following the pace of the work that I have
ahead of me, and the pace of the children
• Exodus 22:27 Do not curse the judges. Do not curse a leader of
your people.

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Compare and Contrast
• How are the two experiences
similar?
• How are the two experiences
different?


Reflection & Wrap Up
• START, STOP, CONTINUE
• A-Ha Moment
• Rate Today
– 1, wasted my time
– 5, learned a lot & walking away a
better understanding of Experiential
Education


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