What are the emotional tools that will help teachers provide their students with an inclusive environment, in light of the unique challenges they face? How do we nurture the teachers themselves and attend to their emotional needs?
How to Cultivate Poverty Awareness at the Systemic Level?
Cultivating poverty awareness is not the work of individuals, but rather requires developing a professional culture and creating appropriate conditions for its implementation. Michal and Matan discuss systemic aspects that will support the creation of sustainable poverty-aware education.
Tools for Cultivating Poverty-Aware Education
What are the tools that will help teachers address the challenges their students face, and how do they impact the reality of their lives?
Where does hope come from?
What is the connection between intimacy and radical hope? How can one truly be interested in the reasons behind actions?
How do we cultivate hope in the face of poverty?
How do we resist the social narratives we have about poverty? How do we understand poverty as something that does not stem from a student's character?
Poverty-Aware Education – Why Is It Important?
How does awareness lead to action? How is poverty related to the distribution of social resources? How can insights about social structure lead to behavior toward those living in poverty?
What is required of schools to maintain heterogeneous classes?
How do we support the process of postponing ability grouping? How does individualized support, beyond learning in small groups, integrate into this process? How do we implement such an organizational change in schools?
Detracking in Mathematics – Opportunities and Challenges
How do students from more challenging backgrounds experience learning in educational institutions compared to students from stronger backgrounds? What difficulties accompany the move toward such ambitious teaching? What are the opportunities despite the challenges?
Tracking in Mathematics – What Message Are Students Receiving?
How does the message conveyed by division into ability groups affect students? How do different learning environments affect students? How does this impact motivation and self-perception?
Why is it preferable to maintain heterogeneous classes in middle school?
Why is it important to maintain heterogeneous classes specifically in middle schools? When is it more appropriate to divide into ability grouping? What happens in other countries around the world?
