Professional Development

The Museum offers professional development in Holocaust Education for LA based teachers in partnership with renowned institutions such as Facing History and Ourselves, ADL and the Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation.

Upcoming Workshops:

Holocaust Education Institute Offered for Educators, Community – Beginning November 2011

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is participating in the Anti-Defamation League annual standards-based Holocaust Education Institute. Spanning most of the school year, the Institute will bring together museum-based resources, curricula, pedagogical expertise, and dynamic presenters through five sessions beginning with Session One on November 4, 2011, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at USC: A Multimedia Framework for Teaching the Holocaust.  Sessions Two through Five, held during after-school hours in West L.A., will focus on the history of the Holocaust, survivor testimony, the use of primary resources, and using visual art and music to teach the Holocaust.   This course provides an opportunity to get all the best resources in Holocaust education available from every major organization in the field.  It explores how to teach the complexities of the Holocaust and other more recent genocides, while adhering to California state standards.

The Workshop includes:

• a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
• a visit to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
• a visit to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust at its new facility
• Examination of primary resources and artifacts, Survivor testimony, History of Anti-Semitism, Using music and art to teach the Holocaust, and Lessons on hatred and prejudice that manifest in our society with a close look at recent genocides.

On February 16, 2012, 4:15 - 8:30 p.m., Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will host Session Four: Teaching the Holocaust through Art. Participants will be given a tour of the Museum’s brand new facilities which will highlight LAMH’s art exhibition of the Erich Lichtbau-Leskly Collection: A Picture of Theresienstadt (Terezin). Teachers will gain insight on using music and visual art to teach the Holocaust.

The Institute is presented in five interconnected sessions:

Session One at USC is $20 per person, which includes meals, materials, and parking. Sessions Two through Five are $15 per session or $50 for the four sessions.  Completion of Sessions Two through Five qualifies LAUSD educators and librarians for one unit Article Six multicultural credit.
Session One will include hands-on training with IWitness, a new website with more than 1,000 video testimonies and tools for educators and students to develop multimedia projects, along with panel of Holocaust Education scholars.  Participants will also receive a copy of Echoes and Reflections – A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust ($95 value).

Registration is now open for this workshop. Please click here to visit the ADL Holocaust Education Institute to register. For more information and questions, contact Matthew Friedman at mfriedman@adl.org

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