shoah foundation: Holocaust workshop for teachers to include survivors' accounts

Holocaust workshop for teachers to include survivors' accounts
Attendees may receive CSU extension credit

"The Relevance of Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century" will be held for educators and community members from 4:15 to 8:30 p.m. on four consecutive Thursdays, beginning Jan. 31. An optional fifth session will take place Thurs., Feb. 28.

This is the 25th annual teacher training workshop presented by the Anti-Defamation League and will include Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum of the Holocaust, the Holocaust curriculum for middle and high school students developed by the ADL, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and Yad Vashem.

The workshop offers opportunities to learn from scholars, educators, specialists and survivors' eyewitness accounts. While it is designed for middle and high school levels, elementary school teachers will also benefit.

The workshops will cover these topics: Overview and Introduction, Witness to History, Educational Experience and Primary Resources, Teaching Democratic Values through the Holocaust, and Teaching Moral Decision Making through the Holocaust.

Registration is $65 before Jan. 21 and $75 after. Fee includes a kosher dinner each session, all learning materials and credit toward books or videos for classroom use.

Educators completing the workshop are entitled to salary points from Los Angeles Unified School District, in-service credit from the Bureau of Jewish Education and may receive University Extension units from California State University.

The workshop is presented by the ADL, the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance, in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and Yad Vashem in cooperation with the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers of Los Angeles and the "9139" Club.

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