The Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge and The Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival would like to formally invite all secondary English and social studies teachers to apply for a fully funded scholarship to attend the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The scholarship is funded by
The Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge and The Baton Rouge Jewish Film
Festival. The scholarship was created to form a teacher cohort that would
dedicate themselves to the mission of Holocaust education, to learning the
proper pedagogy for Holocaust education, and to work to see the implementation
of Holocaust studies within their curriculum and community.
Teachers who receive the scholarship will receive funding
for airfare to D.C., lodging (2 per room) and registration for the conference.
The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for
Educators is for middle and high school educators with five or less years of
experience teaching about the Holocaust
At the Belfer Conference, sessions are designed
specifically for middle and high school teachers, Museum educators and scholars
to share rationales, strategies, and approaches for presenting the complex
subject of the Holocaust to students. Participants hear survivor testimony and
have extensive time to view the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition, Remember
the Children: Daniel’s Story, and other special exhibitions and to use
the interactive computers in the Wexner Learning Center. Seminar sessions
emphasize planning and implementing units of study for Holocaust education in
middle and high schools. Teachers who complete the program receive a set of
educational materials and a voucher worth $100 to purchase Holocaust-related
resources in the Museum Shop.
Teachers who are chosen as scholarship recipients will be
expected to fulfill the following obligations during the 2009-2010 school year:
• Pre-conference meeting and reception for scholarship
recipients, May 18, 2009.
• Assist in developing Holocaust appropriate
curriculum
• Teacher and class attendance the Jewish Film
Festival (student film showing)
• Student participation in the Jewish Federation of GBR and the Advocate’s annual writing contest for Yom HaShoah commemoration
Download the Belfer Conference Scholarship Application (PDF)
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