The seminar for educators in Jewish Day Schools from Australia and South Africa is a ten day, intensive learning program focusing on helping Day School teachers develop the skills needed to create curriculum and content for Shoah studies and to deliver that content in the most compelling way possible. The seminar is historically and pedagogically based using interdisciplinary approaches to engage the participants to create understanding of the Shoah in its complexity. Using the unique Yad Vashem pedagogical approach, modeled lessons, workshops and collegial interaction, participants will be empowered to create individual Shoah Study programs tailored to their respective schools.
Among the topics studied, under the guidance of world famous professors and teachers, are; The History of Antisemitism, The Jewish Life Between the two World Wars, The Roles of Political and Youth Movements in the Jewish Community Before and During the War, Germany and It's Jews 1933-38, What is Unique About Nazi Antisemitism?, The Final Solution, The Ghettos, The Camps, Life After the Holocaust, and Theological Approaches to Understanding the Shoah. |
We will discuss topics that educators need to consider when developing a Shoah curriculum including; Embedded versus Designated Shoah Studies, Age Appropriate Shoah Studies, and Goals Oriented Shoah Studies.
Topics in Pedagogy include; Safely In Safely Out, The Goal of an Educator, Is There a Place for Simulation in Shoah Studies?, The Use of Dilemmas in Shoah Studies, Creating Empathy as Goal Shoah Studies, and Using Media When Teaching Shoah.
The educators will encounter modeled classes such as Jewish Women in the Holocaust, Resistance, Shoah as a Tool When Learning Jewish Text, Women in the Partisans, The Antisemitism Workshop, The Auschwitz Album, A Day in the Life of the Ghetto, and Cultural Life in Vilna Ghetto. These and other education Units for the classroom will be available for purchase.
In addition, there will be especially prepared educational units for teachers in Jewish Elementary schools. These units are designed to introduce younger students of foundational information that will be helpful to them in their future studies. All classes are age appropriate.
In order to be considered eligible for this seminar you must currently be a teacher in a Jewish Day School and be recommended by the Principal or Head of School where you teach.
For more information please contact Rabbi Moshe Cohn at moshe.cohn@yadvashem.org.il
In order to apply please click here:
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