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-centred learning.
Typical topics include:
- Proficiency-Based Teaching – Aligning instruction with performance-based goals- going deep.
- Instructional implications on how Students Acquire a Second Language – From input to output.
- Planning for Impact – Designing Effective Hebrew Lessons – Practical frameworks for lesson planning that align instructional goals, student engagement, and language proficiency outcomes.
- 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-centred learning.
- Differentiated Instruction with Intention – Addressing diverse learners flexibly.
- 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.
- Active learning: what and how?
- Promoting autonomy learners in the Hebrew as a 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.
✔️ 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.