Parshanut for Teachers
About the Course
This course is designed to accomplish the following:
- To help teachers develop understanding of the fundamental exegetical, conceptual, and religious goals and methods of Rashi, Rashbam, Ibn Ezra, Ramban, Radak, Abarbanel, Malbim, and Rav Hirsch through analysis of their commentaries
- To help teachers develop an approach to teaching parshanut that situates learning within a compelling, engaging intellectual and religious framework
- To help teachers develop skills and methodology for teaching parshanut in middle school and high school classrooms
- To consider the goals of Tanakh study in the eyes of the mefarshim and how that understanding might inform classroom teaching of parshanut
This course will be intensively text-based; conceptual exploration will be rooted in textual analysis. Each unit will:
- Develop understanding of methodology and approaches of the mefarshim through analysis of their writings
- Explore pedagogical methods and goals, with an eye toward developing practical strategies and conceptual approaches for classroom teaching