Over the course of the teacher training seminars, educators get acquainted with MERCHAVIM's Shared Citizenship Model, investigate its five core concepts and acquire practical tools for improving the atmosphere in their classrooms and schools.

We seek to create heterogeneous groups of educators which include a wide variety of identities from all educational streams. Yet even in in-school training seminars, where the teaching staff is relatively homogenous, a variety of issues relating to the identities which exist in the particular class or school – and to questions of access and fairness in the school – may be tackled. 

MERCHAVIM teacher training seminars qualify for continuing education benefits and for Ofek Hadash reforms. 

A 56-hour (60 hours for Ofek Hadash reforms) training program which includes a 3-day residential in the Continuing Education Center for Educators in Social Studies and Humanities at Beit Yatziv, Be'er Sheva.

Program implementation is adapted to the school or kindergarten's particular needs and includes an ongoing process of support, provided by MERCHAVIM's school support coordinators.

Shared citizenship education facilitates meeting challenges relating to the part of their lives different groups share in schools daily and contributes significantly to the school's climate. The training fosters in the educators the development of "glasses" for examining the in-class and in-school reality. This point of view affects the development of positive attitudes in pupils regarding difference in their close surroundings – class, school and community – as a first step in accepting difference and otherness in Israeli society.

Based on the school's needs, in-school training seminars can deal with a variety of issues relating to teacher-pupil relations, pupil-pupil relations and teacher-parents relations.

Training seminars can be comprised of 14, 28 or 56 hours, (15,30,60  for Ofek Hadash reforms) all of which qualify for continuing education benefits.