Prague Workshop: "Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century" (August 2012)

Anna Lenchovska, Regional Consultant of the USC Shoah Foundation in Ukraine, and Oleksandr Voytenko, teacher trainer and author, share Ukrainian teaching methods with Czech educators. Left: Jan Valenta, interpreter.

Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant, leads a session at the workshop.

Oleksandr Voytenko, teacher trainer and author, leads a workshop session.

Anna Lenchovska, Regional Consultant of the USC Shoah Foundation in Ukraine, leads a session at the workshop.

Teachers Natalya Golosova and Ruslana Burova work with video testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.

Participants at the official opening of the “Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century” workshop.

Martin Šmok, the USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant, leads a session at the workshop.

Czech and Ukrainian educators listen to presentation by Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation Director of Programs.

"Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century” workshop participants.

USC Shoah Foundation–The Institute for Visual History and Education, organized a seminar for Ukrainian teachers at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. The seminar ran within the framework of Teaching with Testimony for the 21st Century, the Institute's professional development program for teachers in Europe, from August 17-24. The program provides training centered on the educational use of Holocaust eyewitness testimony. Fifteen teachers from across Ukraine were introduced to pedagogical approaches and methods of multimedia educational resource development based on video testimony from the Institute’s Visual History Archive. more

Album posted on: September 19, 2012