This seminar for educators in all Jewish Educational Formats is a one-time program allowing us to begin to return from the rigors of the recent pandemic. This seminar will be a seven day, intensive learning program focusing on helping teachers in Jewish Schools to 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 and student needs.
Among the topics studied, under the guidance of world famous professors and teachers, are; The History of Antisemitism, Modern Antisemitism, The Polish Jewish Community Between the two World Wars, The Rise of Nazism and the German Jewish Response 1932-39, What is Unique About Nazi Antisemitism?, Life in the Ghettos, Spiritual Resistance, Women in the Resistance, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Birkenau: Trying to Understand the Incomprehensible, Return to Life, and Post Holocaust Theological Approaches to Understanding the Shoah and more. When topics being discusses are not appropriate for younger students, alternative options will be offered for those teaching earlier grades.
Topics in Pedagogy will include; Embedded versus Designated Shoah Studies, Age Appropriate Shoah Studies, Goals Oriented Shoah Studies, and Using Different Disciplines to Study the Shoah.
Topics discussed that need to be considered when developing a Holocaust curriculum 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 a Goal of Shoah Studies, and Using Media When Teaching Shoah.
The educators will encounter modeled classes such as A Street in Warsaw, Spiritual / Physical Resistance,, Shoah as a Tool When Learning Jewish Text, Unique Dilemmas Faced by Women in the Shoah, The Antisemitism Workshop, The Auschwitz Album, A Day in the Life of the Ghetto, Fierce Females: Women in the Parisians, The Jewish Response to the Rise of Hitler in Germany, The Nazi Use of Propaganda. These and other educational units for the classroom will be available for purchase.
This program is highly subsidized and space is very limited. In order to be considered eligible for this seminar you must currently be a teacher in a Jewish school. Other than a non-refundable $200 registration fee, Yad Vashem will cover the remaining tuition costs associated with the seminar including hotel accommodations (double occupancy / half board) for the duration of the program, food, transportation from the hotel to the seminar and back each day, and all extracurricular activities.
Plane fare and travelers insurance are NOT covered in the Yad Vashem subsidy. This seminar is conditional on the ability to travel to and from Israel without having to go into any type of isolation. In the event that health conditions warrant the cancelation of this program, Yad Vashem takes no responsibility for purchased transportation tickets.
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For more information please contact: Rabbi Moshe Cohn at moshe.cohn@yadvashem.org.il
