High School Educational, Curriculum Development & Teacher Training Programs
The Center's Education Department develops and implements a range of programs for teachers and students in high school. The programs deal with business ethics and social responsibility and are appropriate for the needs of teachers, students and schools in Israel and English speaking countries..
DVD Video Trigger-Movies - The Center offers an innovative business ethics study program based on a series of DVD based trigger movies for use in North American and English speaking high schools. The program introduces students to moral dilemmas related to money and business and provides suitable source material for the study of the ethical principles from both secular and Jewish sources. Each study unit includes a teaching guide, student materials and a video trigger film. The program is suitable for all schools.
Teaching the Teachers - The Center offers in-service training programs on moral education relating to business and economic issues for Israeli teachers or visiting teachers from overseas. The aim is to train the next generation of teachers to ethical sensitivity.
Business Ethics Seminar at the Tarbut veTorah Community High School, Orange County CA
Ethics in Intellectual Property (IP) Program - This program has pioneered the teaching of ethical issues related to IP within the existing curriculum in the national school system in Israel through the publishing of specialist teaching guides and in-service teacher training. The project is run in partnership with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Israel Ltd, Microsoft Israel Ltd., the Israeli Ministries of Education and Justice and the United States Embassy in Israel.
Curriculum Development - In 2001, the Center was instrumental in introducing business ethics for the first time into the matriculation system in Israel in the business management studies framework. It also offers programs for the study of Jewish Value Perspectives on Business ethics and economics
For further information regarding High School programs, please contact Ephraim Gopin