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1.
"Let's Play on Sesame Street" – A Kindergarten Educational Pack to Promote Shared
Citizenship
"Let's Play on Sesame Street" is an educational pack for kindergarten and 1st
and 2nd graders, in Hebrew and Arabic. The pack was developed in
collaboration with Sesame Workshop and Hop!, Israel's leading children's TV
channel – and
is approved by the Ministry of Education.
The pack's objectives are to assist
children to feel comfortable with diversity and to identify the beauty and
potential it holds, as part of life in the kindergarten or classroom.
What does the Pack Include?
- 10 activity packs which are put into
action by educators in view of events that talk place in every kindergarten,
such as: unwillingness to have one of the children participate, offensive
remark regarding an individual's accent, social rejection due to a child's external
appearance, ridicule based on one's clothing, cultural traditions, etc. Class activity
is based on viewing video segments from Sesame Street.
- A guidebook for the teacher.
Sample study materials [under
construction]
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2.
"Let's Talk",
a Communicative Arabic Program to Promote Shared Citizenship in Elementary
Schools
The program's objective is to encourage
students to study the Arabic language, to get acquainted with the culture of
the country's Arab citizens, to help them get to know the other – and appreciate
diversity in the classroom, school, and Israeli society.
The program is currently being taught to some 5,600
students in 162 4th-6th grade classrooms in 24 Jewish
primary schools in the Central District, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education,
Arabic Language Supervision and the Kremnitzer-Shenhar Headquarters.
The program is currently taught by 22 specially
trained and supported teachers, most of whom are Arab-Israelis, during 2 hours per week.
The program includes:
- A teacher's guide
- Teaching aids
- Student workbooks
- Audio CDs
Sample study materials [under
construction]
3.
"Spaces of Shared Citizenship” Arab-Israeli Junior High
School Program
This unique project featuring special collaboration between
the Pedagogical Secretariat – the Arab Educational Branch, the Director of Druze and
Circassian Education and the Kremnitzer Headquarters. This program is currently
being studied in 29 junior high-schools during 1 hour per week by 8th
graders in the Central, Northern and Haifa Districts.
Sample study materials [under
construction]
4.
Access and Shared Citizenship in American History – Arab-Israeli high school students and
their teachers
This English Program has been developed especially
for Arab-Israeli high school students and their teachers in Israel's
"Arab", "Druze" and "Bedouin" school systems. It
is designed to support English learning requirements for the 4-point Bagrut
level.
In addition to teaching English, the program aims to
engage students in the idea of democracy as an ongoing historical struggle by
individuals and groups of citizens of diverse backgrounds to participate fully
and fairly in the communities and governing of their states.
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5.
"Teaching across School Streams" – Integration
Program
In 2008, we have begun integrating
Arab-Israeli English and Arabic teachers in elementary and high schools in the
Central District, as part of a broader program to integrate professional
teachers associated with a certain educational stream in schools which are
associated with another school stream. The program is based on the assumption
that a positive example of "other" Israelis and diversity in school life
will help expand openness and deepen the acquaintance with the "other"
in the school community and Israeli society at large.
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