St. Helens Teacher Workshop-Feb. 13, 2013

St. Helens High School – 2375 Gable Rd., St. Helens, OR 97051

February 13, 2013

2pm-6pm

This workshop combines the pedagogical experience and resources of three world-renowned organizations: Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem.

Each workshop participant will receive a complimentary copy of “Echoes and Reflections — A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust”. Ten multi-part lessons are provided with a companion DVD of over two hours of visual history testimony from 51 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. Each lesson is supported with numerous primary source documents as well as poems, literature excerpts, diary entries, artwork, and maps. Includes materials that support differentiated instruction and promotes contemporary connections to cultural diversity, intolerance, and genocide. Appropriate for English, Social Studies or Art teachers who are teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, Night, WWII, and contemporary genocide issues.

The goals of this workshop are as follows:

• To provide participants with an introduction to the pedagogy of teaching the Holocaust
• To provide background on the use and value of visual history testimony
• To familiarize participants with the primary source documents found within the “Echoes and
• Reflections” curriculum.

Register here: http://www.ohrconline.org/news-events/upcoming-workshops/

This workshop is presented by the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center,
your local partner in Holocaust education.

Funds supporting the OHRC’s teacher training programs were provided in honor of Holocaust survivor SIME KAMINSKY MESHUL, and the memory of her family who perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau: mother, Bobel; father, Kopel; brothers: Shloime, Meishe, Yudel; and sister, Roseh.