Teachers often find it difficult to teach the Holocaust in an appropriate way due to constraints of time and a lack of appropriate resources. Many resort to merely showing a film such as Schindler’s List in its entirety. This course will seek to provide delegates with practical ideas and examples to enable teachers of History, RE and Citizenship to develop a scheme of work for teaching about the Holocaust. During the day delegates will have an opportunity to review a range of textbooks, poster packs and multimedia resources and consider how they may be used in the classroom.
The aims of the course are to:
* Consider common pitfalls and difficulties in teaching the Holocaust
* Demonstrate, with examples, how to develop a Holocaust scheme of work for KS3 without merely concentrating on the perpetrators and their actions
* Consider how to develop lessons from the Holocaust
* Review a range of resources available to teachers and consider how they may be used