Secondary Educators: Full-Day Workshops
The following workshops are free for current 7th-12th grade classroom teachers. Training sessions will take place at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
To attend, please complete and return the appropriate registration form by fax, mail, or email. Seating is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Teachers who attend all three 2009-2010 full-day sessions are eligible to receive one semester hour of graduate credit through Aurora University. Learn more about receiving graduate credit.
Teachers who attend all three 2009-2010 full-day sessions are eligible to receive one semester hour of graduate credit through Aurora University. Learn more about receiving graduate credit.
Using Eyewitness Testimonies
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Postponed from March 11, 2010 - TO BE RESCHEDULED
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Postponed from March 11, 2010 - TO BE RESCHEDULED
In Partnership with Yad Vashem and the Anti-Defamation League
Echoes and Reflections is a multimedia curriculum developed by the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad Vashem, which includes lessons illustrated with maps, photographs, timelines, a glossary, and primary source material, along with a companion DVD of visual history testimony. Join Shulamit Imber, Pedagogical Director of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies as she teaches you how to apply and use this interactive curriculum in your classroom.
Receive a FREE copy of Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust (Value: $100), courtesy of the Harry and Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust
Teaching and Learning about Genocide Perpetrated in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Content, Approaches, Resources
Thursday, April 15, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The 20th and 21st centuries have been witness to continued genocide and inhumanity. If atrocities continue to happen decade after decade - what are we to think? What are your students to think? Can genocide be prevented? What can we do to make a difference? How can you motivate your students to care enough to take action?
Please join Holocaust and genocide scholar and author Dr. Samuel Totten (Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Arkansas) as he discusses the challenges, approaches and methods you can use to teach about genocide in your classroom in an age of genocide.
Please join Holocaust and genocide scholar and author Dr. Samuel Totten (Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Arkansas) as he discusses the challenges, approaches and methods you can use to teach about genocide in your classroom in an age of genocide.
Deadline to Register: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Generously Supported by the Sherman Family Philanthropic Fund
Skokie, IL