The following Holocaust Education Conferences are recommended by the BHEC for scholarship recipients. Other conferences under consideration for scholarship requests must be approved by the BHEC.
Middle- and high-school educators with five or fewer years teaching about the Holocaust are invited to apply to attend this conference. Museum educators and scholars share rationales, strategies, and approaches for presenting this complex topic to students, in sessions designed specifically for middle- and high-school teachers. Participants have extensive time to view the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition: The Holocaust, tour Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story, and other special exhibitions, and visit the interactive computers in the Wexner Learning Center and other resource areas. Seminar sessions emphasize
planning and implementing units of study for teaching about the Holocaust in middle and high schools.
Each participant receives a voucher worth $100 toward purchase of Holocaust-related resources in the Museum Shop. Participants responsible for their own transportation and accommodations.
USHMM
Scholarships:
Up to
forty, $1000 stipends will be awarded
by the USHMM for teachers in schools
meeting certain criteria.
Apply Here.
The Belfer Next Step Regional Conferences will lay the foundation for Belfer alumni to assume leadership roles in Holocaust education in their region. The conferences will provide further professional growth in pedagogy and the history by examining issues related to the history, literature and moral and ethical implications of the Holocaust.
Up to 30 Belfer alumni in each region will be chosen to participate in the Next Step conferences.
Requirements:
Taught Holocaust more than 5 years.
Location:
TBD
Accommodations:
Hotel per conference recommendation.
Dates:
Currently not scheduled.
Session Length:
3 days
Application:
TBD
Application Deadline:
TBD
Cost:
All participants will receive a stipend to help defray travel and lodging expenses, and meals during the conference.
This program invites skilled secondary school teachers
and community college faculty to join a national corps of teachers who serve as leaders in Holocaust education in their schools, communities, and professional organizations.
This is a five-day, all-expense paid
summer institute at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,
D.C., designed to immerse participants
in advanced historical and pedagogical
issues. Following the summer institute,
Fellows are expected to create and
implement an outreach project in their
schools, colleges, communities, or
professional organizations. In July of
the following year, Fellows will attend
a follow-up program at the Museum to
assess their various efforts and to
continue their study of the Holocaust
with Museum staff and noted speakers.
Requirements:
Community college
faculty, and middle and high school
history, social studies,
foreign-language, English and journalism
teachers, as well as librarians and
instructional media specialists, are
encouraged to apply for Museum Teacher
Fellowships. Other content areas will
also be considered. It is expected that
applicants will have taught the
Holocaust for a minimum of five years.
Applicants must teach in United States
schools.
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Sessions consider individual and group behavior. How our identity is formed? How we acquire membership in a group? Participants also consider the relationships among perpetrators, their victims, and bystanders. Other sessions examine the choices Germans and others made in the 1920s and 1930s. As we come to understand the way many of those choices undermined democracy, we begin to realize how hatred, indifference, denial, and opportunism, little by little, can shape a period in history. As we learn how the Jews, "Gypsies," and others were humiliated, isolated, and ultimately murdered during the Holocaust, we discover that history is not inevitable.
In closing sessions, participants consider questions of right and wrong, of guilt and responsibility. In these sessions, participants contemplate issues related to prevention, ethical decision making, and choosing to participate in a democracy, by returning to themes developed in the opening sessions.
Throughout the course, connections are made to other histories. Participants relate the choices people made at other times with those faced in the world today. The course presents an array of teaching strategies that help develop the skills, values, and beliefs needed to build and sustain a democratic society. Participants will be provided with resource material and engage in studies based on the books developed by the staff including: Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior.
If you are not able to attend a seminar
in person, check out the Facing History
online seminars. For more information
click here.
Requirements:
For teachers planning to teach or currently teaching the Holocaust.
Summer 2009
will be an advanced seminar designed for
teachers who have been previously
trained by Facing History. The
BHEC will consider applications from
those teachers not previously trained by
Facing History, if they have a thorough
Holocaust background.
The Alabama
Holocaust Commission has been designated
a "Center of Excellence" by the Jewish
Foundation for the Righteous. The
Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program
is a partnership between the JFR and the
participating Holocaust Center. In
agreeing to participate in the program,
each center receives two initial
scholarships for the Summer Institute
for Teachers and commits to nominating
two educators each year thereafter.
Additionally, each center agrees to
sponsor Holocaust teacher education
programs that draw on JFR materials and
training models. The centers make a
commitment to teach the Holocaust in as
comprehensive a manner as possible and
to include the subject of rescue.
Teachers who attend JFR programs - known
as Alfred Lerner Fellows - form a cadre
of educators for each local center as
well as for the JFR.
The JFR's
additional education programs are comprehensive and far-reaching.
They include not only the summer residential program
but an advanced seminar, an educators' trip to Germany and Poland, an academic newsletter, a teachers' Internet resource, and partnerships with Holocaust
Centers throughout the country. The cornerstone of the program is the book, Voices & Views: A History of the Holocaust,introduced and edited by Professor Debórah Dwork, a leading Holocaust historian.
The first Summer Institute for Teachers was held at Clark University in June 2000. Since June 2001, the Institute has been held at Columbia University in New York City during the last week in June. The program is a high-level, intensive academic seminar in which participants are exposed to Holocaust survivors such as Roman Kent and to noted Holocaust scholars including, Debórah Dwork, Henry Feingold, Peter Hayes, Marion Kaplan, Michael Marrus, Michael Phayer, Harry Reicher, Nechama Tec, and Robert Jan van Pelt. The Institute is designed to allow participants to meet in small groups following each lecture. These small groups enable the teachers and Holocaust center staff to share teaching concepts and to develop approaches to introducing the subject matter to their students.
All participants selected to attend the JFR Summer Institute for Teachers are known as
Alfred Lerner Fellows.
Requirements:
1. Teacher must be nominated by the Alabama Holocaust Commission
(AHC), a designated "Center of Excellence."
The AHC will nominate 2
teachers each year from the state of
Alabama. 2.
Teacher must teach English or Social Studies at the middle or high school level, or
they must work in an education capacity at
the AHC. 3.
Teacher must have taught for at least five years
and must be at least four years from retirement. 4.
Teacher must currently teach the Holocaust in
the classroom.
5.
Teacher must have attended at least one Holocaust related professional development program. 6.
Teacher must agree to serve as a resource for the JFR and for the
AHC.
Location:
New York City, NY
Accommodations:
Dorms of Columbia University, included in cost.
Rooms will be shared. Single rooms
available for additional fee.
Dates:
Sunday, June
27 - Thursday, July 1, 2010 Program
begins 12 noon on Sunday & runs through
2:00 pm on Thursday.
The JFR
holds its Advanced Seminar in northern
New Jersey over the birthday weekend of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This two-day
intensive program is open only to Alfred
Lerner Fellows and is limited to 20-22
participants. The Advanced Seminar
is designed to deepen knowledge of the
Holocaust in particular geographies or
thematic areas. Participants are expected to complete required readings and writing assignments prior to the start of the program.
The 2010 program
will focus on the Nazification of
Germany. Scholars for the program
include: Peter Hayes (banking),
Robert Jan van Pelt (architecture),
Douglas Morris (law), William Meinecke,
Jr. (education).
Requirements:
Teacher must have first complete the “Summer Institute for Teachers” and be considered an Alfred Lerner Fellow and must be nominated by their local Holocaust Center.
October 1, 2009 for
AHC application. October 15, 2009 for JFR application.
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ll
fees must be paid by November 2.
Cost:
$325, based on double occupancy $120
additional for a single
European Study Program in Germany and Poland The European Study Program in Germany and Poland offers participants an intensive educational experience.
It is scheduled every other year. The first European Study Program was held in July 2003. The two-week program in Germany and Poland, which is limited to fifteen Lerner Fellows, includes visits to concentration camps, ghetto sites, and former shtetls and meetings with survivors, rescuers, local historians, and teachers. Robert Jan van Pelt and William Shulman are the scholars for the European Study Program.
The two-week program ends in Auschwitz, where the group spends four days with participants visiting Auschwitz, Birkenau, and reviewing documents in the archives. Participants have the opportunity to review what they learned during the two weeks. The program allows the group to discuss approaches to teaching the Holocaust and to reflect on their experience before departing for home. The Jewish Foundation for the
Righteous sees the European Study Program in Germany and Poland as its capstone and provides a subsidy for each participant.
Requirements:
Teacher must have first completed the “Summer Institute for Teachers” and be considered an Alfred Lerner Fellow and teacher must be nominated by their local Holocaust Center.
AHC
deadline is October 15, 2009. JFR deadline is
November 2, 2009. A non-refundable
deposit of $500 is due at that time.
Cost:
$3500-$4000 per person, double occupancy Includes all meals, transportation from New York, sites, taxes, travel insurance, guides, etc. Does not include passport/visa fee, beverages with meals, laundry and telephone.
$500.00
non-refundable deposit due November 2,
2009.
Martin & Doris Rosen Summer Symposium for Educators and the Community: "Remembering the Holocaust” The purpose of this conference is to provide a wide audience of public school teachers, university faculty, students, and concerned citizens with information and insights about the victims, perpetrators, and consequences of the Nazi Holocaust. The Symposium will raise basic questions about intolerance, indifference, and human courage in a dangerous world.
The symposium will provide approximately forty hours of instruction. Teachers who complete all forty hours will receive four CEU units.
Requirements:
Open to
middle and high school teachers and interested community leaders nominated by their local Holocaust Center.
First 30 to apply. Begin reviewing applications in March.
Cost:
Full scholarships to first 30 North Carolina participants to sign up. Includes registration, all materials, room, breakfast and lunch each day, and dinner the first two evenings.
Applicants responsible for 4 evening
meals. Cost for out of state participants is $400 unless in-state slots are not filled.
International
Seminar: "Teaching the Shoah and Antisemitism"
This seminar convenes six full days a week – Sunday to Thursday, from 8:30-5:00 and on Friday, lectures will end at 2:00, or there may be optional tours. The seminar is both physically and emotionally taxing, and we shall do our utmost to assist participants in coping with the various aspects of it. A typical day’s activities include lectures, pedagogic workshops, group discussions, survivor testimonies and film. Hours are long and the materials presented – much of it highly academic and of pedagogic importance – requires a high degree of concentration. Participants are therefore obligated to prepare themselves adequately by reading as much background materials as possible. Recommended reading materials will be sent to the participant on acceptance to the seminar.
In order to enrich the
program of approximately 140 hours,
field trips are included – in Jerusalem,
Christian and Jewish Holy sites, a visit
to the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum in the
North of Israel, a trip to the Palmach
Museum and Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv,
and a trip to Massada and the Dead Sea
in the Judean Desert.
This seminar is accredited by the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a
participant can receive up to four MA
credits.
Requirements:
For dedicated teachers planning to teach or currently teaching the Holocaust. In order to be eligible for BHEC Scholarship, teacher must have attended a minimum of two (2) previous national Holocaust workshops.
Location:
Jerusalem, Israel
Accommodations:
Hotel
(Bed & Breakfast) paid by attendee. Approximately $100/day
(single) or $60/day (double). Cost includes breakfast.
Winter
Seminar: October 15, 2008
Summer Seminar: April 15, 2009
Cost:
$750 + $50.00 non-refundable application fee. Some scholarships available.
Jewish Educators Seminar:
“Teaching the Shoah, Antisemitism and Contemporary Israel" The seminar will feature academic lectures by leading scholars and educational experts from Yad Vashem and Israeli universities in order to provide the participants with historical knowledge in the field of the Holocaust. Special attention will be given to widening the participants' knowledge on pre-Holocaust Jewry and Jewish responses during Nazi occupation. The program will also discuss issues of
contemporary antisemitism; uses of survivor testimony; interdisciplinary teaching approaches; age-appropriate methodology; and the impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish world and its effects on Western civilization. Special workshops and discussion groups will enable participants to explore educational issues, pedagogical theories and practical applications in Jewish educational frameworks.
Requirements:
The seminar is open to Jewish educators working in Jewish day schools. Upon return to their respective schools, participants will be expected to implement a number of Holocaust education projects, such as coordinating ceremonies, teacher-training workshops, etc. They also must inform Yad Vashem of their endeavors. Maximum of 30 participants.
Location:
Jerusalem, Israel
Accommodations:
Hotel paid for by Yad Vashem,
Bed & Breakfast, double occupancy.
Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers Program A summer study program in Poland and Israel for U.S. secondary school teachers. Three-week seminar includes education activities in Poland and Israel with the participation of scholars from Israel’s Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the Study Center of the Ghetto Fighters’ House at Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot.
Requirements:
Secondary school teacher.
Location:
Poland and Israel.
Accommodations:
Hotel per conference recommendation; included in fee.
March 26,
2010.
Applications are filled on a rolling
basis.
Cost:
Registration Fee $3,000.00.
Payment due immediately upon acceptance.
Includes round-trip travel from
Washington, D.C., trips to historic sites, hotel accommodations (2 to a room) and 2 meals daily. Payment is expected immediately upon notification of acceptance.
