Teacher Innovation Network - Explore the lives of witnesses to the Holocaust through their stories.

Explore the lives of witnesses to the Holocaust through their stories.

A meeting place for educators who are committed to overcoming prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry through use of the Institute's archive.

Guidelines for Using Visual History Testimony

I am excited to share Considerations and Guidelines for the Use of Visual History Testimony in Education with all of you.

The document is intended to help guide educators through the process of incorporating video testimony into classroom instruction.

Click on the link to read and download the Guidelines.

Echoes and Reflections Training

Echoes and Reflections --A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust developed developed by the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem, includes everything an educator needs to teach the complex issues of the Holocaust.
To learn more about training in your area, click on the map.

Also, be sure to check out the new Echoes and Reflections website.

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Welcome!

Welcome to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Teacher Innovation Network. We created this Network to reach out and connect with teachers dedicated to exploring innovative ways to use the medium of video testimony to address issues of prejudice, bigotry, and personal responsibility. To enable you to communicate directly with us and with other teachers with similar interests, we have launched this Ning. If you have suggestions or are interested in particular topics for discussion, please start your own discussion! If you have used testimony in the classroom, we encourage you to share your experience by posting your comments here. We look forward to your participation.
Sherry Bard
Sheila Hansen
USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Videos

Renée Firestone Testimony

Added by Sherry Bard
Leopold Page Testimony

Added by Sherry Bard
Helen Fagin Testimony

Added by Sherry Bard

Survivor Testimonies

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute hosts its own YouTube Channel. We have posted 95 full-length testimonies on our channgel. Here are three of the testimonies: Renee Firestone, Leopold Page, and Helen Fagin. Also, we recently posted four Spanish-language testimonies.

Blog Posts

Holocaust Presentation

This is my first post ever on a blog! I teach at a private independent day school in New York City and have been passionate about teaching for over 30 years. I am also the child of Holocaust survivors. My father, Joseph Horn, was the sole survivor of his family. He was 12 years old when the war began. He also published his memoirs, Mark It With a Stone, in 1996, which was the fulfillment of a life-long dream. Three years later, he passed away at the young age of 72. I have always felt tha… Continue

Posted by Sandra Rubenstein on December 23, 2009 at 6:53am

Interviewing Eyewitnesses

In order to interview survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute developed interviewing methodology in consultation with Holocaust historians, psychologists, and experts in the field of oral history. As a result, the Institute developed Interviewer Guidelines and Videographer Guidelines to ensured that the interviews would be conducted with a consistent approach. In addition, a Pre-Interview Questionnaire was created in order to record detailed biographica… Continue

Posted by Sherry Bard on November 20, 2009 at 4:54pm — 1 Comment

A Space Between

Mark this date. My very first blog post ever. They say that you should write about what you know and what you care about. So here we go. I am a teacher. A proud, perpetually exhausted teacher. For over 20 years I have found myself in a classroom alternately keeping the peace and waging a war. If you are here on this page with me now, you probably teach too. This then, the Teacher Innovative Network, is a place for you and me—the collective us—to meet and share what it means to teach and learn in… Continue

Posted by Sheila Hansen on October 28, 2009 at 8:48pm