How do teaching methods in Jewish yeshivas and seminaries differ?
In Yeshiva usually study is split into Chavrusah style (where you study together with a partner and try to work things out together – and there’s a teacher in the room to answer any questions), or through a Shiur (in which a teacher will usually go more in depth, explaining the Talmud). I once had a fantastic ‘Maggid Shiur’ who used to give classes by purposely giving false explanations. He encouraged ‘shouting out’ of opinions, and in every lesson the class would be split with people arguing both sides. He was a genius at making us learn how to use our brains to figure out what the Talmud is getting at, and to try and use our own minds to come up with explanations. I don’t think I’v yet forgotten a single class he gave (and I had him as my teacher 11 years ago). In seminaries they learn Torah in group discussion and in Shiurs as well. They don’t study dressmaking, as today it serves no practical purpose, but many of them will study practical classes on living in todays world as a Jewi
