Nov. 3, 2008
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Holocaust Museum Houston’s permanent exhibit “Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers” culminates with a video of survivor testimonies. To facilitate the use of survivor testimony in educational classrooms the Museum created a special DVD and curriculum guide entitled “Where Is My Family?” This DVD contains survivor testimony segmented chronologically so that it may be used daily during a Holocaust teaching unit. This special teacher training will focus on the use of “Where Is My Family?” as well as allow teachers to meet the survivors whose testimony is contained within the DVD. Training will be geared to K-12 teachers and college professors who want more resources on video survivor testimony in their classrooms. The content learned in this session could be used not only to teach history, but also to deepen and enrich a study of literature. Registration fee is $30, and includes a copy of the DVD, the accompanying curriculum guide and lunch. Visit www.hmh.org/register.asp by Oct. 27 to register online.

Nov. 16-17, 2008

Please join us as we explore the Facing History and Ourselves resource book “Choices in Little Rock,” a collection of teaching suggestions, activities and primary sources that focus on the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. These efforts led to a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as “the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War.” These resources explore a range of civic choices. Those decisions, both then and now, reveal that democracy is not a product but a work in progress. In this two-day workshop, participants will consider ways to engage students in the issues raised by this history and its civic implications for their lives today. “Choices in Little Rock” can be used not only to teach history but also to deepen and enrich a study of civics, government and literature. Participants will receive the "Choices in Little Rock" teaching guide, which contains suggestions for lesson plans, reproducible readings and copies of documents for students to analyze. Registration fee is $65, and includes a resource guide and lunch. Visit www.facinghistory.org/choiceshouston to register.