Projects for Teachers

On May 19-20, 2015 “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” in cooperation with Zhytomyr Regional Institute of Advanced Teacher Training and Ivan Franko Zhytomyr State University conducted All-Ukrainian Seminar for History Teachers and Methodologists “Innovational Technologies in Teaching World War II and the Holocaust History”. The event gathered about 50 teachers, methodologists, school heads and scholars from different regions of Ukraine.

During the seminar participants had an opportunity to listen to the reports by Prof. Kostyantyn Bakhanov on technological approach to history teaching at schools, and Prof. Igor Smagin on innovational aspects of modern Ukrainian History textbooks. Oleg Rudyi, teacher from Khmelnytsky, presented his experience of using multimedia e-books on the Holocaust history lessons, while Maryana Shpak, “Michael Marmer Museum” Research Associate, shared her ideas on how to deep the interest on pupils to the topic of World War II and the Holocaust via museum exhibitions. Oleksandra Bykova from Kirovograd described her own methods of using visual sources in educational process. Natalya Rudnytska, professor of Zhytomyr University, told about how the Holocaust history is researched by Zhytomyr pupils and students. The University is planning to deepen Jewish Studies and attract more students. And it is worth to be mentioned that these promises resulted in creation of special new course “History of Jews in Ukraine” that will be opened for all those interested History Department students in new school year. In its turn “Tkuma” Institute supported this initiative by donating large number of scholarly literature on Jewish istory to the University.

Feedback of participants:

Oksana Andriychuk: “Lecture by Oleg Rudyi, who demonstrated different approaches and opportunities to use multimedia manuals in history lessons, showed the features of how to attract children to learning historical material via new technical opportunities … With great pleasure I listened to the reports by other teachers and practitioners who shared with us their experience and learned some new techniques in working with multimedia”.

Taisiya Verzhanska: “It was extremely interesting. For me as a young specialist the experience of teachers presented during the seminar as well as its practical application will be a model for developing my own lesson”.

Simultaneously with the seminar, on May 20, Ievgeniia Salamakha and Denys Shatalov, “Tkuma” Institute employees, organized mobile educational exhibitions for pupils of 9-11 grades of Gymnasium # 23 and Lyceum # 25. Schoolchildren were told about two tragedies of 20 c. – the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. Denys Shatalov noted: “I hope that after these exhibitions pupils started to think what price humanity is paying for the inability to be tolerant to Others”. 

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