The Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at GW Establishes New Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in

Jewish Education


October 22, 2018
MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Blumenthal-Cohen, sharonb@gwu.edu

WASHINGTON (October 22, 2018)The Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development is proud to launch its new Master’s degree in Curriculum & Instruction with a concentration in Jewish education to begin Summer 2019. Interested students can apply by visiting the GW Student Portal.

The program is designed for Jewish day school educators, heads of departments, directors of congregational schools, or individuals starting their careers in Jewish education. The Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership invites interested candidates to join us for an intense and stimulating cohort learning experience in our nation’s capital. We prepare students to become teachers in formal classroom settings with an emphasis on teaching strategies, instructional techniques, and curriculum design for specific Jewish text-based disciplines.

Students will learn alongside full and part-time students studying education at GW. To earn the master’s degree, students will complete core courses in Curriculum & Instruction in a world-renowned Graduate School of Education in addition to courses particular to the concentration in Jewish education: Jewish history, rabbinics, Bible, and experiential education. These courses offer an opportunity to learn Judaic studies from recognized experts and to consider creative ways to master and to teach content knowledge. An internship at the end of the program offers a chance for candidates to teach in a supervised classroom in a Jewish school and to benefit from veteran mentors.

To learn more, please visit
The Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership or contact Dr. Sharon Blumenthal-Cohen at sharonb@gwu.edu. Interested students can apply by visiting the GW Student Portal.

The Mayberg Center was started in 2016 to advance community-based scholarship in the field of Jewish education and leadership. Housed in the GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) at The George Washington University, the Center aspires to be a vibrant laboratory for teaching, learning, and educational engagement in the arenas of pedagogy, identity, and Jewish literacy. The Center has three goals in serving the community: 1) to provide high-level graduate degrees in Jewish education, 2) to offer professional development for in-service educators and non-profit professionals, and 3) to bring academics and practitioners together to shape the Jewish present and future.
The Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership is funded through the generosity of the Mayberg Foundation.

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