Offsite Professional Development
Our off-site or online teacher workshops are free, and they are ideal for a school or district’s professional development days! Please email Education Manager, Andrea Miskewicz at amiskewi@kennesaw.edu to register your group for a workshop or with any questions about off-site professional development.
Off-Site Professional Development Offerings:
History in Action: Teaching Complex Topics Using Primary Sources
The Museum of History and Holocaust Education offers History in Action: Teaching Complex Topics Using Primary Sources, a 60-90 minute workshop for teachers to learn best practices on how to handle teaching controversial topics that can be found in social studies curriculum. A museum educator will visit your school to review primary and secondary sources, provide tips about teaching controversial content, and model an activity using primary sources during this workshop.
Propaganda or Fake News?
The Museum of History and Holocaust Education offers this 60-90 minute workshop session for teachers confronted with the challenge of using propaganda as both a tool to illustrate historic events and as a primary source to analyze government persuasion. The facilitator will discuss the intersection between propaganda and "fake news" through visual literacy and critical thinking exercises and allow collaborative time for participants.
Connecting Language Arts & Social Studies: Graphic Novels
The Museum of History and Holocaust Education offers this 60-90 minute workshop session for teachers to explore how to work with graphic novels to support students’ learning of World War II/Holocaust through the experiences of figures like Anne Frank and George Takei, along with stories of fictional characters.Strategies presented will help teachers appeal to reluctant readers, English Language Learners, and other students who would benefit from visual cues.
Simulations in the Classroom: Teaching Tool or Trauma Trigger?
The Museum of History and Holocaust Education offers Simulations in the Classroom, a 60 minute workshop for teachers to explore appropriate methods of teaching hard history. A museum educator will visit your school to share research, present alternatives, and model an activity.
For additional questions, please contact us at mhheeducation@kennesaw.edu.
Using Eyewitness Testimony in Your Classroom
The Museum of History and Holocaust Education offers Using Eyewitness Testimony in Your Classroom, a 60-90 minute workshop for teachers to learn how to use different oral histories in their history classes. A museum educator will visit your school to discuss social history, show teachers how to help their students analyze and conduct research using eyewitness testimony, and model an activity using the museum’s Legacy Series oral history program.
For additional questions, please contact us at mhheeducation@kennesaw.edu.
