School Year 2005-6

Changing the Culture of the Education System

Mitchell Excellence 2000 (E2K) teachers attend workshops throughout the school year presented by the Chais Teachers Institute, a division of the Society for Excellence through Education (SEE). The workshops take place both on national and regional levels.

Chais Teacher Institute workshops are credited

by the Israel Ministry of Education.

E2K Junior High School

1. Mathematical Thinking: Introductory Seminar 3 Days Sample Course Title: "Combinatorics"

2. Mathematical Thinking: Ongoing Training 12 Days Sample Course Title: “Crossing the Bridges"

3. Experimental Sciences: Introductory Seminar 3 Days Sample Course Title: “Sky Rocketing into Space"

4. Experimental Sciences: Ongoing Training 12 Days Sample Course Title: “The Wonders of Soap Membranes"

Training Tracks 2005-6

E2K Elementary School

5. Mathematical Thinking: Introductory Seminar 3 Days Sample Course Title: “Fibonacci Series"

6. Mathematical Thinking: Ongoing Training 10 Days Sample Course Title: “Math in Action"

7. Experimental Sciences 10 Days Sample Course Title: “Elementary Sciences"

E2K High School

8. Physics - Sample Course Title: “The Rainbow" 8 Days

E2K Abroad

9. Mathematical Thinking: Introductory Seminar 3 Days Sample Course Title: “Crossing the Bridges"

10. Mathematical Thinking: Ongoing Training 9 Days Sample Course Title: “Combinatorics"

11. Experimental Sciences: Introductory Seminar 3 Days Sample Course Title: “Sky Rocketing into Space"

12. Experimental Sciences: Ongoing Training 9 Days Sample Course Title: “Apollo 13"

13. E2k Abroad Coordinators Track 2 Days Sample Course Title: “The Role of the Local Coordinator”

Special Program Tracks

14. E2K School-wide Program, Tiberias 9 Days Sample Course Title: “Scientific Thinking"

15. Excellence Advisors Course – first year participants 12 Days (In partnership with the Davidson Institute for Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science)

16. Excellence Advisors Course – second year participants 16 Days (In partnership with the Davidson Institute for Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science)

…Special Program Tracks

17. The Ilan Ramon Space Team Program 8 Days (In Partnership with the Norman and Helen Asher Space Center at the Technion)

18. Gildor Family Projects and Inventions 2 Days (In partnership with the Israeli Air Force)

19. Virtual Learning 22 Days (In partnership with the Davidson Institute for Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science)

Teacher Training Tracks

School Year 2005-6

TOTAL

Courses 19

Training Days 156

Teachers Participating 500** Many teachers participate in multiple tracks