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Programs for Educators
The Anne Frank Center USA offers a variety of professional development workshops for educators at all levels. Our workshops provide teachers with the opportunity to examine the life and times of Anne Frank through her diary, family photographs, and documentary images as portrayed in our current exhibits. Participants are encouraged to make connections with literacy, history, and visual learning themes as they identify and further develop discussion topics within the exhibit content. This workshop models effective ways to engage students in addressing and responding to primary resources, providing teachers will the tools they need to develop lessons for use both in and outside the classroom. Through examining the progression of historical events that lead up to such tragedies as the Holocaust, our goal is to support teachers in helping to ensure that our school students are well-equipped to act as leaders in challenging discrimination, intolerance, and bias-related violence in a positive and constructive way.
Workshops can also take place at the Anne Frank Center or at your school, community center, or other public space. For more information or to schedule an AFC professional development workshop email education(at)annefrank.com
Professional Development Class at AFC Asks for Part Two Next Summer
Facing History, Anne Frank, and Ourselves, a professional development class taught July 27 - 31 at The Anne Frank Center by Doreen Hazel, is a 30-hour accredited Department of Education “P” credit course. Twenty-seven teachers from elementary, middle and high schools all over New York City took the course and were excited to bring the material into the classroom. Ms. Hazel, a former NYC classroom teacher who has taught the class twice before at the Anne Frank Center, won the New York Post’s 2000 outstanding Teachers of NYC award. She has traveled extensively with Facing History and Ourselves in 1994, 2001 and 2006.
In spite of the difficulty involved in processing Holocaust material for five full, consecutive days, the teachers asked Ms. Hazel if they could come back for part-two next summer. And could she be their tour guide on a trip to Amsterdam and Germany following in Anne’s foot steps?
“I read the Diary as a young adult but the depth of my understanding was different then as compared to now. Reading it again within the framework of history and this course has been eye-opening and extremely worthwhile,” wrote one teacher in her evaluation.
The goal of the course it to help teachers discover the spirit within a 13-year-old child that inspired her to write a diary that ultimately became one of the most frequently read books in the world. Videos, photographs, pictures and audios that relate to the Holocaust topic as well as Holocaust survivors as guest speakers helped students examine the consequences of intolerance, prejudice, racism and anti-Semitism.
“Teachers want to teach history but they don’t have all the information. Courses like mine can help make Holocaust material accessible to the students,” notes Ms. Hazel. As part of the course, teachers were asked to write lesson plans and essays on the five most meaningful quotes from Anne Frank’s diary.
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