Monday 24th June 10.30am- Tuesday 25th June 3pm 2024
Corrymeela/Facing History will be holding a two day residential on the Holocaust and Human Behaviour. See below for details.
A funded two-day ‘Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour Workshop’.
- Start date/time: 10:30am, Monday 24th June 2024
- Finish date/time: 3pm, Tuesday 25th June 2024
- Location: Corrymeela, 5 Drumaroan Road, Ballycastle
This two-day workshop will explore the Holocaust and Human Behaviour unit which supports students to develop their empathetic and critical thinking skills while studying the Holocaust.
Workshop Content and Objectives
During this two-day workshop, you will:
– Learn current scholarship on the history of the Holocaust and new research focused on human behaviour, group dynamics, and bias;
– Increase your ability to facilitate respectful classroom discussions on difficult issues such as racism, antisemitism, and other forms of exclusion in a way that invites personal reflection and critical analysis;
– Learn a new way of structuring curriculum to help students connect history to their own lives and the choices they make;
– Engage with classroom-ready multimedia resources and learn how to build a customised unit that meets your curriculum objectives;
– Discover new teaching strategies that help students interrogate text, think critically, and discuss controversial issues respectfully.
This workshop is intended for secondary school teachers who are looking for different ways to teach the Holocaust and other challenging materials to their students, and is designed to give you an in-depth understanding of the Facing History pedagogy.
Funding, booking and accommodation
This workshop will be hosted at Corrymeela’s residential centre in Ballycastle. Accommodation and meals will be provided, and sub-cover funding is available for attending teachers.
Sub-cover costs are offered for this training opportunity and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. We are hoping to ensure as many schools as possible can avail of this opportunity and therefore, may not be able to accommodate sub-cover for multiple teachers from the same school.
Please note that you may be required to share a room with one other teacher during your stay due to limited accommodation.
We will be joined by Michelle Perkins, Senior Programme Associate at Facing History and Ourselves UK and Fabenson Frisch, Associate Director of the International Programme at Facing History and Ourselves.
Places will be limited, if you would like to book your place or have any further questions, please email garethgould@corrymeela.org.