Learning in The Gan at Beit Rabban is focused primarily around social-emotional development in which children learn how to both express themselves as individuals and become part of a collective classroom community. Children spend time learning how to speak to one another, listen to another's ideas, work together to solve conflicts as they arise, compromise, understand that friends can have differing ideas, and enjoy one another.

Children are immersed in a language-rich environment where they are reading and read to, and where their stories and thoughts are continuously recorded on paper and displayed on the walls of the classroom. Various learning centers around the room are available in which children play and learn. Artwork, building, dramatic play, and music are central components of the classroom as well. The day is structured carefully to combine time when children meet and learn as a class group, and time when children choose their own activity or experience in the classroom.

Units of study in The Gan at Beit Rabban evolve with the children's interests. For example, the children were very excited by a visit to a synagogue sanctuary and wanted to build their own classroom aron (Torah ark). The children in all three Gan classes did research on various kinds of aronot, drew up their own designs, and built and decorated their own classroom aron. Children have further explored experiences and projects that have captured their interest — one year it was shoe stores, another it was the postal service, from which they received their own postal ID cards! In addition, teachers design projects for the students based on their observations of the students' needs, growth and interest. Children are given time and space to explore these units of study through various lenses — such as stories, songs, field trips, art, dramatic play, building, writing, and critical thinking activities — and their studies are documented through pictures and their own recorded reflections.