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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Offers Teacher Fellowship Program

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The NEA Foundation supports a variety of efforts by teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to improve student learning in the nation's public schools, colleges, and universities.

The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education inspires public education employees to ensure that all students succeed. As the foundation of the National Education Association , we believe that:

• public education excellence is vital for our democracy and should be attainable for all;
  
• education employees determine the quality of public education;
  
• students should actively pursue their education;
  
• education employees should embrace diversity and act accordingly;
  
• effective education employees should continually learn, apply their knowledge, share their expertise, and lead their profession; and
  
• education employees should partner with their peers, researchers, policymakers, and communities to make public schools great for every child.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellowship Program is developing a national corps of skilled secondary school educators who serve as leaders in Holocaust education for their schools, their communities and their professional organizations.

For each year of the program, up to 15 educators in grades 7 – 12 will be designated as Museum Teacher Fellows. These educators must show evidence of extensive knowledge of Holocaust history, successful teaching experience, and participation in community and professional organizations.

Museum Teacher fellows will participate in a five-day, all-expense paid summer institute at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., designed to immerse participants in advanced historical and pedagogical issues. Following the summer institute, Teacher Fellows are expected to create and implement an outreach project in their schools, communities, or professional organizations. In May of the following year, Teacher Fellows return to the Museum for a follow-up program to assess their efforts and to continue their study of the Holocaust with Museum staff and noted speakers.

History, social studies, foreign language and English teachers, as well as librarians and media specialists, are encouraged to apply for Museum Teacher Fellowships. Other content areas will also be considered. It is expected that the teachers will have taught about the Holocaust for a minimum of five years. Teachers must teach in United States schools. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2006.

For more information, contact Peter J. Fredlake, Coordinator, Museum Teacher Fellowship Program, Education Division, USHMM, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2124. Tel. 202-314-0352; fax 202-314-7888. Email pfredlake@ushmm.org.