The Talpiot College of Education (המכללה האקדמית תלפיות) is a religious teacher training college

Teacher training college

A teacher training college is a college of higher education that specialises in training students to be teachers.Many universities offer similar facilities, a number of which acquired their provision by taking over a teacher training college or by a teacher training college evolving into a...

 in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel. It prepares teachers “in the spirit of the Mamlachti dati (state religious) education system”. http://www.talpiot.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=2

It was founded in 1937 by Rabbi Dr. Jacob Alishkovsky http://www.talpiot.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=2 and was originally called the "Talpiot Beit Midrash for Kindergarten

Kindergarten

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 Teachers".

The college is accredited by the Council for Higher Education in Israel

Council for Higher Education in Israel

The Council for Higher Education in Israel is a supervisory body for universities and colleges in Israel. It is the only organization with the authority to give educational accreditation...

 and offers specialized Bachelor of Education

Bachelor of Education

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 degrees in the following tracks: early childhood; elementary school; secondary school; special education

Special education

Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...

; educational counseling.

The college established Midreshet Aviv

Midreshet Aviv

Midreshet Aviv is a Midrasha in Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1996 in conjunction with the Talpiot College of Education, so as to “prepare the next generation of Israeli teacher / educators, and intended as a warm, family like Midrasha, where young women may study Torah for its own sake, while...

 in 1998 as an institution of Torah Study

Torah study

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 “lishma” (for its own sake). Midreshet Binat is also associated with the college.

External links

• College website (Hebrew
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