ORT Argentina

ORT Argentina is a pluralistic and open Jewish educational institution, pro State of Israel, that offers secular education, and which has been operating in the country since 1936. It now runs activities:

  • In its two main campuses in the city of Buenos Aires, covering three educational levels: Primary School, High School, and Tertiary Adult Education.
  • In Tigre, Buenos Aires Province at Primary School level.

The curriculum covers comprehensive general education oriented to fields of science and technology, Jewish Education, and it also underlines the importance of personal and social responsibility.

ORT Argentina

Name of Organization ORT Argentina
Location Almagro & Belgrano Campuses, Buenos Aires and Tigre Campus, Buenos Aires Province
Age range Primary School, Junior High, High School, Tertiary Adult Education Level
Students 9828
Professionals 1363

Technological Tracks for Senior High School Students

ORT Argentina promotes a comprehensive educational model that combines a solid general education with elective tracks organized into specific professional fields related to technological knowledge areas. By choosing a particular track, students develop the skills to identify and solve problems, carry out projects, and independently face the challenges presented within their chosen field. By getting a deep understanding of a discipline, not only in terms of concepts but also through the acquisition of skills and techniques, students gain confidence in their capabilities and develop learning methods that will later facilitate the exploration of other specific areas of knowledge. This model can also be applied to various aspects of their personal lives.

There are nine tracks from which senior high school students can choose:

  • Artistic Production and Cultural Management
  • Business Administration
  • Chemistry and Biotechnology
  • Construction and Design
  • Design
  • Informatics and Digital Media
  • Information and Communication Technology
  • Mass Media Production
  • Mechatronics

Education 2.0

ORT Argentina’s "Education 2.0" model places students at the center of an innovative, digitally integrated, and collaborative learning experience. Through its Teaching and Learning Resource Center (CREA), educators are supported in creating dynamic, tech-enabled learning experiences. The Virtual Campus serves as a personalized, collaborative digital space where students and teachers engage in research, problem-solving, and project development. Editorial ORT shares high-quality educational materials freely with over 600 schools across Latin America and beyond, while the NEO ed-tech newsletter keeps educators up to date with curated teaching resources and tools. This approach places students at the center, giving them voice and agency in their learning while ensuring teachers are professionally supported and technologically empowered.

Jewish Studies

At ORT Argentina, Jewish Studies are approached from a historical and cultural perspective, encouraging and respecting the diversity of conceptions within the framework of 21st-century Judaism. Central pillars of this experience include the knowledge of foundational biblical narratives, the bond with the State of Israel, and the daily development of creative, critical, and reflective thinking and action, with a focus on transmitting the legacy we have inherited.

Key projects include:

  • Judaism through Meaningful Experience - Throughout the school years, the calendar, traditions, customs and values of the Jewish millenary history are always present.
  • Beit Haknesset (Synagogue) - The students may participate in the daily minyan to pray and share the Parashat Hashavua and the Dvar Torah with different community Rabbis.
  • Toldot Israel / Moreshet Israel - ORT Argentina has recently developed an innovative program for teaching the different subjects that make up the Jewish Studies area: sources and festivals, Jewish history and Hebrew language.
  • Hebrew textbook "Ivrit Baderech" - The Hebrew language teachers have developed an online Hebrew language textbook with different versions for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. All students can work on programmes in the Jewish education units accessed from the Virtual Campus. These materials cover a wide variety of topics: Jewish identity, Torah, rabbinic literature, and modern Jewish history.
  • Digital didactic units - The digital didactic units have been developed to enrich the transmission and teaching of Jewish history and values. These units are currently used by ORT Argentina and by other educational institutions of Argentina and Latin America.
  • March of the Living - Hundreds of ORT Argentina students have travelled to Poland and Israel under the banner of March of the Living. This international programme gathers youngsters from all over the world. It recalls and educates about the heroic resistance of the Jews, their fight for dignity and the importance of never forgetting the Holocaust.

Technological Education

To enrich students’ scientific and technological training, and to strengthen the skills they need to thrive in today’s dynamic and demanding job market, a range of projects has been developed to improve technological education. These projects are innovative not only because of the technological resources used in the classrooms, workshops and laboratories, but also because of the synthesis between theory and practice that defines the working methodology applied. Activities are designed to help students hypothesize, experiment, explore, analyse, test, and make decisions through problem-posing and problem-solving methodologies.

Examples of these projects include:

  • Mobile Robots - Robotics and Vehicle Programming
  • Bioprinting
  • Sustainable Mobility
  • Robotic Arms
  • Virtual Reality

Teacher Training Program

ORT Argentina's Continuous Teacher Training Programme includes didactic, disciplinary and professional updates connected to new educational technologies, to the 2.0 pedagogical model and to new curriculum developments. As part of the Quality Improvement Program of the Educational Project, the school systematically carries out numerous surveys and focus groups with students, teachers, parents and graduates in order to assess its areas of success and areas for improvement. The results are taken into account for the following year.