MCHE facilitates awesome seminar
Along with a good number of secondary public and private school educators outside of our Jewish community, I was recently privileged to take part in a three-day seminar and professional development course entitled “History of the Holocaust.”
The course, designed and facilitated by Jessica Rockhold, MCHE’s director of education, in consultation with Executive Director Jean Zeldin, included a session on gendering, taught by Dr. Shelly Cline, MCHE’s newly-hired public historian. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}Their intent was to enhance educators’ knowledge on major topics about the Holocaust, including anti-Semitism, Nazi ideology, ghettos, the “Final Solution” and resistance. The goal of this course was to give these educators the information and guidance necessary to create a Holocaust curriculum, which would be offered to secondary-education students.
Through visual histories, archival materials, pedagogical expertise in teaching and an impressive knowledge of the subject matter, Ms. Rockhold, provided us with an essential message about a most heinous and tragic episode in our history, that in my opinion, must be communicated to the world at large.
Not only was I immensely impressed with the course and facilitator, but I was also awed by the caliber of educators in the room who felt it important enough to teach this vital information to their communities throughout Kansas and Missouri.
Thank you to the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education for presenting many valued educational opportunities to our populations.
Hedy Shron
Overland Park, Kansas{/mprestriction}
