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Education & Communities
23 to 27 July 2012
The Freedom and Enslavement Wall at the entrance to the International Slavery Museum
You are invited to attend the third annual International Slavery Museum Teachers' Institute - a unique CPD opportunity for teachers.
The Institute aims to increase awareness, skills, knowledge and confidence in teaching the subject of the system of transatlantic slavery, the enslavement of African people and issues around contemporary slavery. It will bring together 15 teachers from across the United Kingdom for 5 days.
The programme will explore themes addressed in the National Curriculum: Life in West Africa prior to Transatlantic slavery; the Middle Passage and Enslavement; Life in the Americas; Abolition, Resistance and the Legacies of Transatlantic slavery. It offers a career development opportunity and participating teachers will gain:
The programme will be delivered through talks from curatorial staff, museum education staff, accessible academics who are leaders in their field, as well as interactive workshops, discussions and hands-on activities. We encourage applications from all members of the Teacher and Initial Teacher Training community.
Comments from last year 's course include:
"Seeing practical examples of teaching and best practice has really helped and I am looking forward to bringing those skills to the young people I work with".
"My first thought was, 'How do I introduce this subject to children', but the knowledge and understanding of Atlantic slavery and it's legacies gained from this course will give me a lot more confidence when teaching this sensitive subject in school."
The Teachers’ Institute programme links to the History and Citizenship curriculum at key stage 3:
The National Curriculum cites that pupils should be taught:
These issues are closely connected to the ‘legacy’ section of the programme. The subject of the transatlantic slavery can also be used to support local history and study units at key stage 2, as well as to develop the Citizenship lessons at key stage 4. There are opportunities to teach the subject across the curriculum and key stages by including Geography, RE and English.
Please email us or phone Vikky Evans-Hubbard on 0151 478 4456 to book by 27 April 2012. Places are limited so we advise that you contact us early.
International Slavery Museum opened in 2007 and is a centre of excellence for teaching the history of Transatlantic Slavery. Taking this history as its starting point the museum explores various cultural, historical and social legacies. The Museum aims to be a campaigning human rights museum and to address current issues including racism, discrimination, and contemporary slavery.
The International Slavery Museum attracted over 1,390,000 visitors in the last financial year. Our high quality education programme was delivered to over 8,000 pupils from 150 schools and colleges from Britain and beyond, including students with special education needs. The education programme was developed following extensive consultation with local, national and international schools and communities plus other key anchor groups.
As a museums service, we are uniquely placed to offer resources from our world class collections, that can support teachers within this subject matter more effectively, efficiently and sensitively. This course is fully funded by The American Friends and National Museums Liverpool. Each place has a value of £2,500.