Educators

Holocaust Studies for Educators Graduate Level Course
Holocaust Studies For Educators 2009
Course Dates: June 22 - 26, 2009
Presented by: The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education and Xavier University

This week-long course is dedicated to addressing the needs of educators in confronting a critical issue of the current century - raising humane and conscientious youth in a difficult and complex world. Expert presenters and field-tested materials will combine to ensure that the HSE Summer Institute 2009 gives educators the tools and resources to effectively teach the Holocaust and its lessons through an innovative, interdisciplinary approach. Teachers will receive an extensive curriculum and be trained in ways to integrate Holocaust studies into their program of study. It is taught by scholars in Holocaust Education, tolerance education, and religious studies; provides an interdisciplinary approach to Holocaust education through focus on eyewitness testimonies, artifacts, innovative exhibits, literature, and dynamic curricular materials, as well as dialogue with Holocaust survivors and U.S. Veterans. The course provides 34 contact hours or an optional two hours of graduate-level credit for additional fee. Course content is applicable to an array of Ohio academic content standards.

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Questions? Contact Barbara Christensen at 513.487.3051 or bchristensen@holocaustandhumanity.org

Hana’s Suitcase

Fumiko is the teacher who helped her students discover how history is invented. The students and teacher research and write the history of Hana, a little girl from a small Czech town that suffers from the invasion of the Nazis. The book demonstrates how historians answer the questions of who, what, when, where, and why. The chapters alternate between the present and past. First, the reader is in the present learning how the teacher helps the students begin to develop their historical thinking: forming questions and then developing a process to discover the answers to their questions. The next chapter starts the story of Hana. The third chapter brings us back to the present and describes the next steps the students take in their research. The fourth chapter is back in history with more of Hana’s story. The whole book proceeds like this. Fumiko’s students teach our students to be historians. Hana will help our children learn why they need to develop their own understanding of humanity and the actions that go with that humanity.





•Lesson Plan
Mary Haas (2007) created a NCSS Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan for Hana’s Suitcase. To download a free copy of it, click on this link: http://www.socstrp.org/issues/PDF/2.1.10.pdf.

•Enrichment Guide
A teacher/parent resource was created to use when taking students to see a play adapted from the book, Hana’s Suitcase. The guide includes a range of materials and activities intended to help the learner discover connections to the play through the curricula. However, many of the photographs, maps, suggested activities, and advice for teaching about the Holocaust will be a valued resource for a teacher using Hana’s Suitcase in the classroom. The guide is online and free. To download a copy of the First Stage Children’s Theater Enrichment Guide for Hana’s Suitcase, click on the link: http://www.firststage.org/media/pdf/HanaEG.pdf