We offer full- and half-day in-service sessions, PD seminars, and interactive workshops designed to strengthen Hebrew instruction and expand your team’s pedagogical toolbox.
Topics include strategies for building language proficiency, goal-oriented teaching, and implementing active, student-centered learning.
Typical topics include:
✔️Wickedly Effective – Strategies to Empower Oral Communication Skills for All Levels
✔️ Teaching Reading with Purpose – Combining accuracy and comprehension through meaningful texts and tasks
✔️ Expanding the Second Language Toolbox – Practical strategies for effective instruction
✔️ From Passive to Powerful – Implementing active, student-centered learning
✔️ Differentiated Instruction with Intention – Addressing diverse learners flexibly
✔️ How Students Acquire a Second Language – From theory to instructional implications
✔️ Proficiency-Based Teaching – Aligning instruction with performance-based goals
✔️ Promoting Oral Communication Skills – Building confidence and fluency in Hebrew speech
✔️ Planning for Impact: Designing Effective Hebrew Lessons – Practical frameworks for lesson planning that align instructional goals, student engagement, and language proficiency outcomes
✔️ Designing Meaningful Assessment – Building tools that reflect student progress and support instructional decisions
✔️ The Learner at the Center: Why and How? – Moving beyond the slogan to practical strategies for designing instruction around students’ needs, identities, and voices
✔️ Authentic Texts and Tasks – Why and how
✔️ Summative and Formative Assessment in the Second Language Classroom
Additional topics and customized sessions can be developed based on your organization's specific goals and needs.
Mechina Program: Hebrew Teacher Training Track
Granite Ivrit offers a structured training cohort for teachers of Hebrew as a second language.
The program is ideal for both new and experienced educators seeking to deepen their skills in communicative, proficiency-based instruction.
✔️ Bi-weekly live sessions from September 2025 to May 2026
✔️ Focus on lesson design, classroom strategies, student-centered instruction, and language acquisition
✔️ Includes guided feedback, reflection, and implementation tools
✔️ Led by Dr. Ketty Granite
The Mechina is part of Granite Ivrit’s long-term investment in sustainable Hebrew education. Participants receive a certificate of completion upon full participation.