GFBNEC’S TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE TO BE HELD IN MAUI IN FALL 2010
Save the date! Hawaii teachers are invited to participate in a unique professional development workshop on October 8-9, 2010 covering WWII from the perspective of Hawaii's Japanese American and local communities, "Looking Like the Enemy: The Case of Japanese Americans in World War II."
Presented by the Go For Broke National Education Center, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii and Nisei Veterans Memorial Center, the workshop is open to social studies and Hawaiian studies high school and middle school teachers. The workshop will be held at the Maui Waena Middle School and Nisei Veterans Memorial Center, Kahului, Maui. Limited travel stipends may be available for off-island teachers.
The workshop curriculum is aligned with the current HCPS III for Social Studies and Modern Hawaiian history. Highlights include: World War II history through the personal experiences of veterans from the100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service; overview of the history of internment camps in Hawaii; introduction of online interactive curriculum on the Nisei WWII experience, and use of oral histories for preservation and service learning projects. Teachers will receive classroom materials, including a set of classroom-sized exhibit panels on the story of the Hawaii internment camps. Teachers will also get classroom and community resources, field trip ideas, and more.
Registration will begin in June. For more information please contact GFBNEC's Hawaii office at pam@goforbroke.org or the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center at gail.raikes09@gmail.com.
