Product Description
24 & 25 September
9.30am – 5.30pm on both days
$360 | In-person
This Teacher Professional Development course will give history teachers the chance to enhance their classroom practice of HSC Modern History core unit of study, Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919-1946. Over two days, participants will enhance their historical content knowledge and see key pedagogical strategies for teaching this content and imparting source analysis skills. There will be numerous opportunities to explore the Museum’s collection, hear firsthand Holocaust survivor testimony, and engage in both individual and collegial tasks in order to design learning experiences for your students.
Completing Teaching the Modern History Core: Power and Authority in the Modern World will contribute 10 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptors 2.1.2 & 3.2.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
Catering is provided. This session will be held at the Museum.
If cost is a barrier, please get in touch with Lee-Anne Whitton, [email protected].
These Power and Authority syllabus dot-points will be covered:
- An overview of the peace treaties which ended World War I and their consequences
- The conditions that enabled dictators to rise to power in the interwar period
- The rise of the Nazi party and Hitler in Germany and the collapse of the Weimar Republic
- The initial consolidation of Nazi power 1933–1934
- The nature of Nazi ideology
- Prominent individuals
- The various methods used by the Nazi regime to exercise control, including laws, censorship, repression, terror, propaganda, cult of personality
- The impact of the Nazi regime on life in Germany, including cultural expression, religion, workers, youth, women, minorities including Jews
- Opposition to the Nazi regime
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