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Mary Graybill, APR, Fellow PRSA,
Graybill Communications
310-441-2899
mary@graybillcom.com
Modern Hawaiian History, Social Studies Come to Life at Teacher-Training Institute
Professional development workshop set Oct. 8 – 10 in Honolulu
HONOLULU, HI (September 14, 2009)– Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC) and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii are offering their inaugural jointly produced teacher-training institute, Looking Like the Enemy: The Case of Japanese Americans in World War II. Developed exclusively for high school teachers in Hawaii, the workshop is scheduled during fall break, Oct. 8, 9 and 10, at Roosevelt High School in Honolulu. It will give teachers tools and resources to use the real-life heroes of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service (MIS) to bring Modern Hawaiian History and Social Studies lessons to life in the classroom.
For registration information, teachers can go to the GFBNEC website at www.goforbroke.org, call Pam Funai at 808-585-8484 or e-mail pam@goforbroke.org. Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) teachers can register directly at https://pde3.k12.hi.us. A refundable $50.00 deposit is required with registration. Limited travel stipends are available to teachers from neighbor islands.
The workshop is patterned on GFBNEC's nationwide teacher-training program. It will prepare modern Hawaiian history and social studies teachers to engage students and teach the compelling lessons of the Nisei or second-generation Japanese American soldiers. It also gives them the knowledge and resources they need to teach the Japanese American WWII experience in Hawaii. Teachers will learn to use GFBNEC's curriculum, A Tradition of Honor, and the JCCH's curriculum, Hawaii World War II Internees Project. Both curricula are aligned with the Hawaii DOE's Content and Performance Standards III for Social Studies and Modern Hawaiian History.
Participating teachers will have opportunities during the workshop to create their own lesson plans. They'll leave the workshop with content, teaching strategies and resources for classes, including access to more than 700 video oral histories of veterans talking about their World War II experiences. The institute will end with field trips to the Honouliuli Internment Camp site and an exhibit on the Nisei soldiers at Central Pacific Bank in downtown Honolulu.
Sponsors for Looking Like the Enemy: The Case of Japanese Americans in World War II include the 442nd RCT Foundation, Central Pacific Bank, Island Insurance Foundation, Pacific Guardian Life, Roy's Restaurants, Pacific Bridge Companies and Sons & Daughters of the 442nd RCT.
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