Designing Jewish Learning Environments for Early Childhood Classrooms

Knowledge Topics
Teaching and Learning
Educational Innovation

How can we introduce Jewish customs, values, rituals, and beliefs of Judaism to our youngest students?

How do we use the prepared classroom environment to stimulate learning based on rabbinic texts and create the conditions that support teachers to design Jewish learning environments?

Through a close look at several early childhood classrooms and research conducted in progressive Jewish education settings, explore how to use the classroom environment to plan rich Jewish learning experiences for young children.

Developed by Sheryl Katzman, Laura Weisblatt, and Carol Green.

This resource was provided for a session at the 2019 Prizmah Conference