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Learn to Use Digital Teacher Tools in IWitness

Learn to Use Digital Teacher Tools in IWitness. Join us on August 17th at 4PM PDT
  • Learn to use a virtual classroom to engage students in powerful learning through testimonies of witnesses to 20th century history
  • Learn to monitor and assess student work

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Navigating the Holocaust Through Story

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.

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Holding Respectful Conversations

Holding Respectful Conversations. Join us on September 28th at 4PM PDT

Students' ability to hold respectful conversations is not an innate skill, it must be taught and refined. This is especially important when students are confronted with controversial topics, and, in today's media and social media rich culture, these instances are inevitable. How can they be heard and how should they listen? This webinar will walk through two-testimony based lessons to help your students hone their speaking and listening skills. 

Digital Tools: Holocaust Curriculum and Technology

In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.

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Teach About Kristallnacht Through Testimony

Teach About Kristallnacht Through Testimony. Join us on October 19th at 4PM PDT
  • Bring your lesson to life with personal testimonies from those who lived through Kristallnacht
  • Promote your students' close reading of audiovisual testimony

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Teaching about the Holocaust with English Language Learners

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

Cultivating Empathy

Too often, as has become glaringly apparent in our current national climate, an emphasis on difference has potential for creating misunderstandings that lead to violence. Developing empathy will help students see others as human--individuals with feelings, beliefs, reasons--regardless of ethnicity, gender, and ideology.

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Excluding Jews from Their Homeland and Erasing “Jewish Spaces” in Nazi Germany

A lecture by Teresa Walch (University of California, San Diego)
2016-2017 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies

 

 

Between Scholarship and Community Engagement: Exploring Pre- and Post-Reunification Jewish Life in East Berlin

A lecture by Katja Schatte (University of Washington)
2016-2017 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow