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At the David Yellin Academic College of Education, we share the view of Yanush Korczak, the famous teacher and educator, who once said that, "Education is the only way we can make our world a better place."  

David Yellin College tries to achieve this goal in different ways:

* The College helps new immigrants….

In recent months, the College has welcomed a new group of immigrants from North America, who will be trained to teach English in Israeli schools.

The College runs a program for training Ethiopian immigrants with academic qualifications to work as instructors with Ethiopian parents and their families. The goal of the instructor is to empower Ethiopian adults in their family role, improve their methods of coping with the transition to Israel, and increase their integration in Israeli society.

Students from the College have developed games to help Ethiopian children connect with their culture, in order to assist their absorption in Israel. The students work in five preschools in Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem neighborhood, which has a high percentage of Ethiopian children, and play the games they developed with the children. They use the aliyah story to explain to preschoolers about Ethiopian culture and history.

* The College empowers people with disabilities….

The College runs an integrated social course for student teachers and social activists (with and without severe disabilities), who study together and work on joint projects aimed at change. This year, a project suggested by a participant with a severe disability is being implemented by the College. The participant developed a course called "Training Companions/Aides/Caregivers for People with Disabilities," which is now included in the College curriculum.

* The College aims to promote mathematical and scientific culture….

Science is one of the basic subjects people need if they are to be educated, cultured, and knowledgeable about their environment. Yet many people see science as a separate and foreign subject. Proof of this is the small number of graduates in science subjects in Jerusalem, compared with other parts of Israel.

In response, the College has launched a new program called "From One Extreme to Another," which aims to help teachers work with mathematically talented children. The program is designed for elementary and secondary schoolteachers and students studying to teach these levels, and mathematically talented children. The program seeks to raise teachers' awareness of the needs of mathematically talented children in mainstream schools and math classes. The program provides the theoretical, didactic and mathematical tools that teachers require in order to encourage talented children.

Teachers can help talented children through enrichment, skill 
enhancement, stimulating mathematical thinking, and instilling work
habits for mathematical exploration

* The college is committed to education for sustainability and environmental conservation

Institute of Education for Sustainability

In 2007, David Yellin College had pleasure in inaugurating its Institute for Education for Sustainability. This institute hopes to cultivate a group of people who are interested in education and the community, who are aware of sustainability issues, and who apply the principles of sustainability in their daily lives and educational careers. It is hoped that the members of this group will take the subject into Israeli schools and introduce it into the lives of Israeli children, teachers, and citizens. The institute is for teachers wanting to update their teaching methods and model them on education for sustainability principles. The college as a community supports these teachers’ commitment to applying these principles academically, in the community, in society, physically, and at the management level.

The institute is the umbrella for the academic, environmental, educational, and social endeavor in partnership with the college community as a whole and has a network of reciprocal relations involving sustainability-oriented educational and public bodies and businesses.

In 2007 the college was awarded the status of a Green Campus by the Ministry of Environment.