Projects for Teachers

On January 17, regular educational seminar of “Tkuma” Institute, Museum «Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine» and "Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education" was held. The history teachers of the Dnipropetrovsk region visited the Holocaust Museum and joined guided tour conducted by research associated Iryna Rdchenko, and got an opportunity to talk to Iryna Piskariova, coordinator of “Tkuma” Institute Educational Programs about the possibilities for the teachers to participate in our educational projects and the prospects for further cooperation. Iryna Piskariova presented a new textbook “Introduction to History” for students of the 5^th grade, written in cooperation with talented teacher, winner of the contest “Teacher of the Year" by Olena Burlaka and Dr. Igor Shchupak, and told about a new textbook on the history integrated course for the 6^th grade, which will contain extremely interesting material and tasks.

Dr. Igor Shchupak presented interactive textbook “World History” for the 10^th grade, which was written in the light of the peculiarities of contemporary youth thinking, (so-called « clip thinking ») and demonstrated how innovative multimedia technologies can be used during history lessons – in particular, qr-codes, which contain links to newsreels and videos devoted to various historical events.