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Curricular HintsStudying the Holocaust, from the early grades through high school, is more a conceptual process than a factual one. It is the students' understandings, informed by their classroom and real-world experiences, which give meaning to the knowledge, attitudes, values, and beliefs with which they come into contact throughout their K-12 pursuit. A meaningful study of the Holocaust promotes consistent and cumulative learning from level to level providing students with networks that connect knowledge, skills and beliefs. The study of the Holocaust should be interdisciplinary and integrated across all of the disciplines when appropriate. Instruction should be challenging and suitable with high expectations about the ability of all students to grasp the implications and lessons of the Holocaust. It demands that teachers adapt instruction to students in meaningful ways promoting reflective thinking and decision making. Students should be made culturally sensitive and aware of opposing points of view, aware of their responsibility to promote the common good and committed to social responsibility and action.The following matrix, classroom blueprints, and vignettes offer an opportunity to take a look at classrooms and see the interaction between processes and interdisciplinary instruction. The study of the Holocaust requires more than reading a textbook. Students need to be engaged in the process of learning with opportunities for discovery in many places and the latitude to apply their discoveries in new and different situations. The classroom vignettes describe what a typical classroom might look like on a typical day with a great deal of activity and significant learning taking place. A study of the Holocaust leads to a study of human behavior, examining what it means to be a respectful, caring, humane individual. Examining victim, bystander, perpetrator and rescuer behaviors lends itself to a study of how the lessons of the Holocaust infuse studies of character education and continued incidents of man's inhumanity to man. It is our hope that we will create a more humane world, filled with future generations of educated and critical thinking human beings. Please join us in our quest to teach about the Holocaust and other genocides so that someday we're able to really say, "Never Again".
· Then
and Now: The Experiences of a Teacher
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