The seminar for educators in Jewish Day Schools is a nine-day, intensive learning program focusing on helping day school teachers, in Elementary, Middle and High School 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 empower participants to teach the Shoah in its complexity. Using the unique Yad Vashem pedagogical approach, modeled lessons, workshops and collegial interaction, participants will be prepared to create and present 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, The German Jewish Response to the Rise of Nazism 1933-38, What is Unique About Nazi Antisemitism? The Final Solution, The Ghettos, The Camps, Life After the Holocaust, and Post Holocaust Theological Responses, Dilemmas and Choices, Jewish Resistance, The Eichmann Trial, Understanding Jewish Memory and more.
We will discuss topics that educators need to consider when developing a Shoah curriculum including; Embedded versus Designated Shoah Studies, Age Appropriate Shoah Studies, Goals Oriented Shoah Studies, and Life After Survivors.
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 a Goal of Shoah Studies, and Using Media When Teaching Shoah.
The educators will encounter modeled classes ready for classroom use such as Circles, Last Letters, Beyond the Scene, A Street in Warsaw, Resistance, Shoah as a Tool When Learning Jewish Text, Women in the Shoah, The Antisemitism Workshop, The Auschwitz Album, A Day in the Life of the Ghetto. These and other educational units for the classroom will be available for purchase.
In order to be considered eligible for this seminar you must currently be a teacher in a Jewish day school.
In order to apply please click here
For more information please contact:
Rabbi Moshe Cohn at moshe.cohn@yadvashem.org.il
