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Reflective
Assessment
Please
read the
following
goals of the
national
Endowment
for the
Humanities
for Focus
Group
Seminars.
Please
also read
the goals
for our
Focus Group.
Then
please
reflect upon
the success
of this
seminar as a
whole, as
well s your
success as
an
individual.
Write
your answers
on separate
sheets of
paper.
Attach
these papers
to the back
of this
page.
“A
Humanities
Focus Grant
enables a
group of
teachers,
faculty
members, or
other
educators,
normally
from a
school or
college, to
work
together to
explore an
important
humanities
topic and to
consider
plans of
action for
their
institutions….
Humanities
Focus Grants
can provide
support for
groups of
eight to
twenty
teachers and
administrators
to meet
regularly
with outside
scholars to
pursue a
planned
schedule of
intellectually
challenging
reading and
discussion
and to
explore ways
to integrate
what they
have learned
into their
teaching of
the
humanities,
including
history/
social
studies,
English/
language
arts, and
foreign
languages.”
(National
Endowment
for the
Humanities
Education
development
and
Demonstration
Application
Packet, page
5)
Goals
and
Objectives:
To
achieve this
purpose,
pubic and
private
school
teachers of
the
humanities,
world
languages,
English, and
social
studies from
nearly a
dozen school
districts in
three rural
counties in
Northwest
Washington
State,
working in
concert with
a university
scholar have
organized a
program
designed to
meet the
following
practical
and
theoretical
objectives:
·
Familiarize
teachers
with key
issues in
Holocaust
and genocide
studies and
identify
opportunities
and methods
for
integrating
Holocaust
and
genocide-related
materials
into the
curriculum
effectively
and
appropriately.
·
Identify
sources
available to
enhance
teacher
effectiveness
and to
stimulate
student
leaning and
research.
These
sources will
include
primary and
secondary
material in
various
media; film,
literature,
history,
music,
painting,
etc.
·
Develop
effective
interdisciplinary
approaches
to teaching
the
Holocaust
and genocide
and seek
ways to
explore
common
features
among and
parallels
between past
and current
episodes of
genocide.
(From
NEH Focus
grant:
Holocaust/
Genocide
Studies
Reconsidered)
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