Teachers Invited to Seminar at Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills

The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills and Eastern Michigan University (EMU) will host their Fourth Annual Summer Teacher Seminar for current and prospective teachers Aug. 12-16.

Held at the museum on Orchard Lake Road, the theme for this year’s seminar is “Witnesses to the Holocaust.”  Using the latest academic scholarship and best instructional practices to make lessons about the Holocaust understandable and meaningful for students, the seminar is designed to build an instructor’s content base.

“Teachers in this country rarely have an opportunity to participate in Holocaust education. The quality of this program’s presenters, as well as the opportunity to speak with Holocaust survivors, makes this an extraordinarily powerful and compelling experience for educators,” said EMU Director of Jewish Studies Martin Shichtman, Ph.D.

Shichtman, fellow EMU professor John Staunton and Holocaust Memorial Center Director of Programs Rebecca Swindler organize the event. “We have even reached the point where we regularly register educators from overseas as attendees. This year, teachers from Germany and Estonia will be joining us," he said.

Attendees will hear presentations from scholars and survivors examining the Holocaust from the rise of Nazism to the Holocaust deniers of today. Participating teachers will be provided access to the vast primary resources from the museum library and archive to aid them in the development of their own classroom lessons.

To register, visit http://ep.emich.edu/holocaust.  Cost for the event is $100 and includes nine SB-CEUs.  Three undergraduate or graduate credit hours also are available to participants for an additional fee. All applications are due by Friday, Aug. 2.

For more information, contact Sarah Painter at spainter@emich.edu.

Source: Holocaust Memorial Center press release