Yeshiva University will conduct a Hebrew Language Institute for public and private school teachers of Hebrew this summer under the National Defense Education Act, it was announced today by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president.
Forty teachers from all over the United States will attend the tuition-free Yeshiva University Institute from July 1 through August 17, which is made possible by a $60,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Prof. David Mirsky, associate professor in Hebrew and English literature, will direct the Institute.
The six-week program is designed to place particular stress on the newly emerging forms and patterns of spoken Hebrew. New methods of teaching Hebrew, developed in Israel in the effort to give large numbers of Israeli immigrants a quick mastery of the language, will be studied in the program.
The teachers selected to study at Yeshiva University will receive free tuition, maintenance and transportation. Each participant must be preparing to teach or already teaching Hebrew in a secondary school. Under terms of the grant, public school participants will receive $75 per week plus $15 per week per dependent for the duration of the Institute. Private school teachers will participate on a tuition-free basis but will not receive a subsistence allowance.
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