Dear
Teacher,
It
is with much excitement that we introduce you to Frameworks
V4.0. The recommended practices will assist you with making
connections for your classroom use.
The State of Florida Department of Education has named the
Florida Holocaust Museum as the educational service provider
for Holocaust education. To expedite that, we offer you
Frameworks V4.0 which contains state
standards and benchmark correlations that will enhance
your
teaching.
As
educational institutions throughout the state of Florida are
being called to meet defined benchmarks, Florida standards
and the FCAT testing now require that students demonstrate
mastery of specific skills at the fourth, eighth, and tenth
grade levels. To provide tools for you to help your students
reach these benchmarks, we will explore a broad definition
of literacy, various types of literacy, and language skills
being identified and taught by educators throughout the country.
We will focus on literacy as it relates to the development
of the skills needed to successfully listen, speak, read and
write and we will do it in the context of the Holocaust and
character and values education.
The
definition of literacy has changed in the last twenty years.
With advances in technology, students have access to information
that we never thought possible in the past. Students must
be able to analyze and evaluate the sources of information
and their credibility. Museums can be the center for developing
these skills. Today's definition of literacy is the ability
to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication in
a variety of forms and in a variety of settings.
The
National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Main, has created
the following Pyramid of Learning and Average Retention Rates.
Looking at this pyramid, you will see that most retention
takes place through group discussion, practice by doing, and
by immediate use of learning. Through museum educational techniques
that have been developed and widely tested, we will assist
you in applying these techniques.
Student
learning and understanding are enhanced by employing strategies
that integrate concepts, vocabulary, and sentence structure
presented in age-appropriate, carefully designed frameworks
and materials. It is important not to overwhelm, but to challenge
our students. You will be provided with materials that allow
students and teachers to engage in dialogue, provide pedagogical
approaches that teach the history, build richness of experience
through reading, writing, listening, and speaking at all grade
levels. The material will also promote good reading. It will
also encourage students to think creatively about what they
know and to set their own purpose and look for answers. The
Florida Holocaust Museum material will help you to provide
students with a larger vocabulary, which will lead to increased
comprehension. We will illustrate how to memorialize the vicitms,
not to glorify the perpetrators, and to create thinking about
prevention and taking action.
Through
tolerance education (character education) young people will
be prepared to wrestle with choice, to be more aware of accepting
diversity and understanding others, and to be able to make
ethical decisions in a moral climate.
Frameworks
V4.0 provides
links to proven and appropriate websites, links to downloads,
and access to survivor testimony and related material.
Teacher resource and pedagogical materials are available.
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