This hour-long webinar will introduce teachers to:
- An overview of the 15-lesson unit, with lesson activities from its classroom-ready multimedia resources;
- Teaching strategies that help students interrogate text, think critically, and discuss controversial issues respectfully; and
- A new way of structuring curriculum to help students connect history to their own lives and the choices they make.
Independent evaluation has shown that implementing Facing History’s approach improves students’ critical thinking skills, increases students’ ability and confidence to participate in community action, and increases students’ tolerance for others who hold contrary views to their own.
Resource list
- Unit: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour
- PDF: Unit Overview
- PDF: Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Strategies: Contracting
- Handout: Universe of Obligation
- Featured Collection: The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
- Handout: Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1918–1933 Viewing Guide
- Reading: National Socialist German Workers’ Party Platform
- Handout: Democracy to Dictatorship Reading Analysis
- Handout: Youth in Society Anticipation Guide
- Video: Changes at School under the Nazis
- Handout: The Range of Human Behaviour Vocabulary Terms
- Video: Hitler’s Ideology: Race, Land, and Conquest
- Reading: Take This Giant Leap
- Handout: Phases of the Holocaust
- Handout: Diary from the Łódź Ghetto
- Handout: The Holocaust: The Range of Responses
- Handout: Justice after the Holocaust Anticipation Guide
- Handout: Creating a Memorial
This webinar is intended for secondary school teachers who are looking for different ways to teach the Holocaust and other challenging materials to their students, and is supported by a grant from The Association of Jewish Refugees.
