Introducing Gordon College of Education

Founded 1953

Urban Campus in Haifa

3,500

Students

250

Faculty

Gordon College is a microcosm of Israel’s

multi-cultural

population

B.Ed. Degree

Each Child is a World : Being a Teacher is a Mission

M.Ed. Degrees

WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT GORDON COLLEGE

Each Child is a World : Being a Teacher is a Mission

Multicultural Educational Resource Center

THE MULTICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER AT GORDON COLLEGE

• Trains teachers from different ethnic and religious groups to educate children to live in the multicultural Israeli society.

• Our staff develops learning programs aimed at enhancing tolerance and respect among children.

Each Child is a World : Being a Teacher is a Mission

Center for International Programs and Relations

Involvement in World Issues and

Challenges

Center for International Relations and Programs

TEMPUS and ERASMUS+

• DOIT

• LLAF

• TEACHX

• DARE

EXCHANGES: Student and Faculty

• Swiss exchange program for students

• Faculty and Student exchanges through ERASMUS+

Involvement in the Global

Community:

Special Needs Initiative in the

Ukraine.

WE ARE PARTNERS IN 4 NEW ERASMUS+ APPLICATIONS (DECISIONS

WILL BE IN August 2016) AND ARE LEADING ONE MORE: CURE

ONLY ACADEMIC TEACHING

COLLEGE IN ISRAEL TO LEAD

AN EUROPEAN COMMISSION

TEMPUS PROGRAM:

DOIT

LEADERS IN INTERNATIONAL

COLLABORATION

Development of an International

Model for Curriculum Reform in

Multicultural Education and

Cultural Diversity Training

(Acronym = DOIT).

Enhanced the quality of teacher training for multicultural education, cultural diversity and children’s rights through curriculum reform—SUSTAINABILITY!!

• NEW MA AND BA PROGRAMS in Israel and in Georgia.

• Integrating DOIT’S COURSES INTO THE CURRICULUM

• STUDENT ACTIVITIES

• NUMEROUS SPINOFFS OF DOIT:– New ERASMUS+ programs (DARE)—hopefully CURE!

– Research Grants (Georgia—promoting CR and MCE)

– Creation of a new NGO in Georgia

MOST INVOLVED ACADEMIC TEACHING COLLEGE IN

ISRAEL IN PARTICIPATION IN EUROPEAN

COMMISSION’S TEMPUS AND ERASMUS+ PROGRAMS

• Life Long Learning in Applied Fields (LLAF) (Led by

Hadassah Academic College)

• Developing programs for Access of Disadvantaged

groups of People and Regions to higher Education /

DARE (led by Haifa U).

• Teaching Excellence in Israel (Led by the

Interdisciplinary Center of Hertzilya).

Promoting Faculty and Student Exchanges

through ERASMUS+ Mobility Programs

Since 2009---Swiss exchange: GORDON’s initiative.

2014-2015: ERASMUS + : Signed Agreements with 5 EU HEIs

in 4 countries: (Romania, Czech Republic, Austria and

Ireland).Negotiating with two other universities in Poland.

1 faculty member participated.

2015-16: 20 members of our faculty and administrative staff (15

lecturers and 5 members of the administrative staff).

We have plans to expand this program even further next year.

Opening a new

HOLOCAUST CENTER

With new method's of teaching the

Holocaust to children

Training Students and Educators

to Teach About the Holocaust

Innovative Multifaceted Pedagogical

Program• Courses

• Pedagogical Supervision of Student-teachers

practicing to teach

• Training students of education and in-service

teachers to create educational interactive

programs with the school.

• Educational Field Trips that provide teachers with

the tools to teach about the Holocaust through

visits to memorial sites throughout Israel

Workshops for Children about the Holocaust

Yearly Educational, Interactive Exhibition

during Holocaust Memorial Week in Israel.

Experts on Technology and Pedagogy

Over 30 “Mobile Learning Courses”

(with IPADS)

Distant Learning Courses

Futuristic Classroom

Simulation Center for Teaching and

Learning

Problem and Project Based-Learning

(over 40 faculty members integrate

these approaches into their courses).

Much MORE

Mentoring Ethiopian Children in Pardess Hana and Ethiopian Scholarship Fund

• In partnership with the Federation of Jewish Communities of Miami, Gordon College of Education is working in three elementary schools strengthening the academic learning skills of 40 Ethiopian children.

• Scholarships and support program to encourage Ethiopians to be teachers..

• OTHER PROGRAMS: WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN (AND THEIR PARENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN HEBREW AND ARABIC); VOLUNTEERING AND MORE.

INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY

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