Facing the Past On-Line Educator Support

Course Outline News and up-dates Life Orientation and Arts and Culture Keeping in Conversation

Facing the Past On-line Educator Support

Welcome to the Facing the Past's on-line educator support website.

This website has been designed to support the teachers participating in the Facing the Past project. On this site you will find a suggested course outline for teaching Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and apartheid South Africa in Grade 9. This page will give you access to suggested lesson plans and resources that you can use in the classroom. This website will also keep you informed about what is happening in the Facing the Past project.

For information about Facing the Past click here to view our brochure.

News and up-dates

 We have recently up-dated the course outline .

We have suggested a course that should allow you to complete both the study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust as well as apartheid South Africa in six months ...more

 Herzlia Middle School have produced an Assessment Guide for Life Skills in Life Orientation. They have kindly agreed to share this resource with Facing the Past teachers...more

 We have decided on the dates for the three follow-up workshops that will be taking place this year...more

 Facing History and Ourselves (our American partner) has recently hosted an on-line forum discussion for learners from all over the world including Rwanda, the Czech Republic, USA, UK, Ireland, Germany and Colombia....more  We have added some new topics on the forum discussion page so that teachers can keep talking to each other...more

Life Orientation and Arts and Culture(Visual Arts)

Life Orientation teachers click here for a new lesson on ostracism and for a Lifeskills Assessment Guide produced by Herzlia Middle School.

The course outline on the site has been created around the syllabus for Social Sciences (History). This means that History teachers can follow the outline as it appears and adapt the lessons where they see fit...more

The partners in Facing the Past The Cape Town Holocaust Centre, established in 1999, is an education institution dedicated to teaching the historical, moral and ethical dimensions of the Holocaust. The Centre houses a permanent exhibition and conducts education programmes and seminars for high school learners (Grades 9-12), students from tertiary institutions, professional educators and for a wide variety of groups from the civil service and the broader society. To organise a visit to the Holocaust Centre click here.

Facing History and Ourselves (Boston, USA) is an international education and teacher training organisation whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. The organisation has developed numerous resources for educators to use in the classrooms, many of which are available at www.facinghistory.org. South African educators are able to be in touch with educators around the world through the website.

Facing the Past is located within the Curriculum section of the Western Cape Education Department and forms part of the on-line learning strategy for the Province..

Contact the Facing the Past team

Dylan Wray at [email protected]

Gail Weldon at [email protected]

Karen Murphy at [email protected]

Marlene Silbert at [email protected]

Gill Cowan at [email protected]

Please note: this site is still under construction but will be completed shortly.