We offer a national ITE programme tailored to the needs of beginning teachers, delivered across the country, free of charge. More
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Full day CPD
We focus on classroom practice, with practical activities and engaging resources that develop young people’s understanding. More
This CPD takes place over a single day. We cover essential aspects of effective teaching and learning about the Holocaust through a range of interactive workshops, all responsive to real life classroom contexts:
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Twilight CPD
We offer a range of flexible short workshops which mostly run as after school twilight sessions. More
When we hold a photograph in our hands it can feel as though we are looking directly on the past. A slice of time, a ‘frozen moment’ continues in the present. In this workshop we consider photos from two extraordinary albums.
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Through a range of detailed case studies, we uncover how and why ordinary people became complicit in mass murder, posing searching questions about what it is to be a citizen in the modern world.
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What do most students think the British government did when it found out about the Holocaust? Come and find out at this session, and look at ways of using evidence from a range of archives with students to piece together this fascinating aspect of British and Holocaust history.
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Our research shows that young people are often mystified by the targeting of Jews for mass murder – this activity shows how teachers can work with the film Roots of antisemitism to uncover the origins of this ‘longest hatred’, and to explore continuity and change from medieval anti-Judaism to modern antisemitism.
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The diary of Anne Frank is often used as a ‘way in’ to studying the Holocaust. This workshop, specifically for English teachers, uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore several of these representations and to highlight the tensions that exist between the popular ideas about Anne Frank and what she actually wrote.
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Within popular consciousness the Holocaust is often characterised by the application of modern industrial technology, the ‘factories of death’ for the purpose of mass murder. As much as there is truth in this, the reality is more complex and more discomforting. In this lesson students make a historical enquiry into Treblinka and discover the reality of genocide is not as straightforward as we would believe.
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How is it possible to punish crimes of genocide?
What does it mean to seek justice for crimes of such magnitude?
This session presents four lessons for KS3 following the story of a single family, their murder at Sobibor and the trial almost 70 years later of former guard John Demjanjuk, accused of abetting the murder of some 27,900 people in 1943.
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The question ‘when did “the Holocaust” end?’ is rarely if ever asked, despite it being of crucial importance.
Broaching the numerous ways in which the Holocaust cast long and indelible shadows over post-war Europe is challenging for teachers and students. This workshop is designed to address these challenges, and prepare teachers to examine these themes for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017.
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This is a closed programme is for RE subject leaders who are part of the Leeds Learning Partnership.
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This workshop offers an exclusive opportunity to work with Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann at Birkbeck, University of London, and Tom Haward, from UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.
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Special events
From time to time the Centre arranges special events for a wider audience including members of the public.
These events include public lectures and film screenings and often involve external speakers... More
As the term draws to a close, please join us for a glass of wine and a bite to eat to talk about inspiring practice in Holocaust education.
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