"Teaching the Holocaust" Conference at Hastings College
Hastings College
October 30–31, 2016
Rationale: The Teaching the Holocaust Educators Conference is offered by the Nebraska Holocaust Education Consortium in keeping with our belief that Holocaust education can be most meaningful, successful, and impactful when particular guidelines are followed. Quality Holocaust education has the power to inspire learners to recognize and respond to prejudice and intolerance in their own environments. Awareness of the recommended guidelines and how to implement them in the classroom create Holocaust education of the highest caliber.
Objectives:
Participants will –
-Gain greater knowledge of cultural background and historical events leading up to the Nazi rise to power, as well as during the Holocaust and WWII
-Become familiar with the guidelines established by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), and how they can be applied in the classroom
-Begin to develop their own rationale for teaching about the Holocaust
-Receive resource materials and lesson ideas that will be useful and easily adaptable to their own, individual classrooms
-Learn about new technologies in Holocaust education
-Explore how Holocaust education can address various Nebraska State Standards
-Meet and create a network of like-minded educators
-Consider how these approaches can be applicable to other topics in the classroom
REGISTER HERE!!
Sunday, Oct. 30th - All sessions will take place in the Hazelrigg Student Union.
4:00-4:30pm: Registration and Welcome
4:30-5:30pm: Individual Responsibility: A Model Lesson - with Jane Connealy
5:30-6:30pm: Dinner
6:30-7:15pm: Historical Antisemitism for Middle School Teachers- with Carol Sheridan
Historical Antisemitism for High School Teachers- with Paul Smith
7:15-8:00pm: Pre-War Jewish Life & Technology Tools - Katrina Gotschall
Monday, Oct. 31st
8:00-8:30am: Welcome and Light Breakfast
8:30-10:30 am: Key Events in the History of the Holocaust - Sandy Renken & Tom Seib
- with a Photo and Artifact timeline activity from the USHMM
10:30-10:40am: Break
Breakout Sessions:
Session 1 - 10:40-11:30am
Session 2 - 11:35-12:25pm
12:30-1:15pm: Lunch
Session 3 - 1:15-2:05pm
Topics offered in each session:
2:05-2:20pm Break
2:20-3:30pm Holocaust survivor speaker, Milt Kleinberg
3:30– 4:40pm – Photo Narrative Activity – Terri Toppler
4:40-4:45pm - Evaluations
October 30–31, 2016
Rationale: The Teaching the Holocaust Educators Conference is offered by the Nebraska Holocaust Education Consortium in keeping with our belief that Holocaust education can be most meaningful, successful, and impactful when particular guidelines are followed. Quality Holocaust education has the power to inspire learners to recognize and respond to prejudice and intolerance in their own environments. Awareness of the recommended guidelines and how to implement them in the classroom create Holocaust education of the highest caliber.
Objectives:
Participants will –
-Gain greater knowledge of cultural background and historical events leading up to the Nazi rise to power, as well as during the Holocaust and WWII
-Become familiar with the guidelines established by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), and how they can be applied in the classroom
-Begin to develop their own rationale for teaching about the Holocaust
-Receive resource materials and lesson ideas that will be useful and easily adaptable to their own, individual classrooms
-Learn about new technologies in Holocaust education
-Explore how Holocaust education can address various Nebraska State Standards
-Meet and create a network of like-minded educators
-Consider how these approaches can be applicable to other topics in the classroom
REGISTER HERE!!
Sunday, Oct. 30th - All sessions will take place in the Hazelrigg Student Union.
4:00-4:30pm: Registration and Welcome
4:30-5:30pm: Individual Responsibility: A Model Lesson - with Jane Connealy
5:30-6:30pm: Dinner
6:30-7:15pm: Historical Antisemitism for Middle School Teachers- with Carol Sheridan
Historical Antisemitism for High School Teachers- with Paul Smith
7:15-8:00pm: Pre-War Jewish Life & Technology Tools - Katrina Gotschall
Monday, Oct. 31st
8:00-8:30am: Welcome and Light Breakfast
8:30-10:30 am: Key Events in the History of the Holocaust - Sandy Renken & Tom Seib
- with a Photo and Artifact timeline activity from the USHMM
10:30-10:40am: Break
Breakout Sessions:
Session 1 - 10:40-11:30am
Session 2 - 11:35-12:25pm
12:30-1:15pm: Lunch
Session 3 - 1:15-2:05pm
Topics offered in each session:
- Exploring Issues of Personal Identity and Nurturing Empathy – Sandy Renken
- Janusz Korczak’s Philosophy and Actions – Sidney Tetrault
- Teachers during the Third Reich– Terri Toppler (USHMM REC)
- Diary Excerpts Lesson and Activity – Donna Walter
2:05-2:20pm Break
2:20-3:30pm Holocaust survivor speaker, Milt Kleinberg
3:30– 4:40pm – Photo Narrative Activity – Terri Toppler
4:40-4:45pm - Evaluations