Head of Art teaching certificate program and Academic Coordinator of Teaching Clinical training

Dr. Noam Topelberg

Head of Art teaching certificate program and Academic Coordinator of Teaching Clinical training
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    CV

     

     

    Dr. Noam Topelberg is the Head of the Art Teaching certificate program, and academic coordinator of clinical training at the Teacher Certificate Program, Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University. He is also a Graduate of the Mandel leadership institute Program for Academic Leadership and serves as a national instructor for the design arts department of the Israeli Ministry of Education. His PhD., from the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, dealt with the visual language and iconography of Israeli female artists Relating to the victims of wars. He also specializes in the fields of visual culture and visual literacy. In recent years he has written a 520 hour long curriculum, and five textbooks, dealing with the impact of technology on visual culture and visual Codes, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This curriculum is now taught in more than 250 high schools all over Israel.
     

     

    EDUCATION

    • 2021 Mandel leadership institute Program for Academic Leadership in Education: From Theory to Practice Excellence Program
    • 2017 Ph.D., Department of Jewish Art, Bar Ilan university Thesis: The Iconography of Sacrifice in War from the 1970s in the Work of Three Israeli Women Artists – Mina Siselman, Bianca Eshel Gershuni and Tamar Geter Supervisor: Prof. Yaniv Bracha
    • 2005 M.A., History of Art, Tel-Aviv university
    • 2004 Teaching of gifted and outstanding students (Certificate studies), Tel-Aviv university
    • 1999 Curating (Certificate studies), University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv university
    • 1995 B.A. Dual degree program in Film and Musicology, Tel-Aviv university

    OTHER PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS

    • 2020–2021 Coordination and facilitation of departmental seminar, department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University.
    • 2017-2020 Writer of High school Curriculum and Textbooks for the Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education.
    • 2012-2018 Chief curator of Ness Ziona Municipal Gallery, Yad LaBanim House
    • 2010- present National Instructor of Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education.
    • 2006-2014 Chief Content Writer and editor of textbook and websites of the Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of education.
    • 2014-2020 Art history teacher, Bistritzki Ort for Sciences and Arts, Ramla.
    • 1998-2018 Teacher and Head of art department, Gymnasia Realit Highschool, Rishon Le Zion.


     

    Awards
    • 2013 BIU Excellence Scholarship
    • 2012 BIU Encouragement Scholarship
    Publications

    Refereed Publications

    • Topelberg, N., & Ventura, J. (2023). 'The Visual Code”: Educating in an age of visual culture" . In M. Carmo (Ed.), Education and New Developments 2023, Vol 1 (pp. 115-119). InScience. https://end-educationconference.org/proceedings/
    • Topelberg, N., "Amira Ziyan, Hiding in the Light: A Synergy of Contrasts as a Visual Code of “Otherness”" Arts 11, no. 5: 102, 2022.
    • Topelberg, N. (2022). What Does a Bird Care?! Indifference and Yearning in the Art and Teaching of Mariana Korol. Issues in Cultural Studies, 40, 79-90. https://doi.org/10.31866/2410-1311.40.2022.269359
    • Topelberg, N., “Synergy circles, a conversation with Amira Ziyan”, Art and research, Bulletin of Gershon and Judith Leiber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, Issue 6, 2019, pp, 19-23. (Hebrew).
    • Topelberg, N., “What? Does the Bird Care?! … Between equanimity and longing in the work and teaching of Mariana Corol”, Art and research, Bulletin of Gershon and Judith Leiber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 3-11. (Hebrew).

    CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

    • Chair of session TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Curriculum and Pedagogy // Vocational education and Counseling, Oral Presentations, END 2023, International Conference on Education and New Developments, Lisbon, Portugal, June 24-26th, 2023.
    • ‘“The Visual Code”: Educating in an age of visual culture’, END 2023, International Conference on Education and New Developments, Lisbon, Portugal, June 25th, 2023.
    • 'Mina Sisselman - An androgynous diary’, Women and Gender in arts, The fourth conference of the Association for the Study of Women's Art and Gender in Israel in collaboration with the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 3rd, 2023.
    • Amira Ziyan, Hiding in the Light: A Synergy of Contrasts as a Visual Code of “Otherness”, 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, August 8th, 2022.
    • ‘Cracking the Visual Code: Literacy and Teaching in the Age of Visual Culture’, Inter- university symposium "Amanut veḥinuch: toldot vetoladot" [Art and Education: History and Consequences], Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 7th, 2021.

     

    Non-Refereed Publications

     

     

    • Topelberg, N., High school Textbooks (Part 1: Fundamentals of visual language, Part 2 – “Encounters of the visual type in the technological age": Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4), ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2018.
    • Topelberg, N., High school Curriculum: Part 2 – “visual close Encounters in the technological age”, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2018.
    • Topelberg, N., High school Curriculum: Part 1 – “Fundamentals of visual language”, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2018.
    • Topelberg, N., Art movements of the 19th century, Textbook for second study unit, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2010.
    Courses
    • Methodology of Teaching
    • Instructional Training Workshop
    • Clinical Training Practicum
    • Digital learning and teaching
    • Avant-garde - theory and practice
    • Female Artists - from the margins to the center
    • The Visual Code: Art in the Age of Digital Culture
    Fields of Expertise

     

    • Visual Culture
    • Visual Codes
    • Visual Literacy
    • Philosophy of Art History of Art
    • Art and Education

    Last Updated Date : 04/07/2023