Teacher Training Workshop at the Manitoba Social Science Teachers Association (MSSTA)
“Continuity and Change: Teaching the Holodomor Genocide in Ukraine on its 90th Anniversary and the Current War on Ukraine – Using Food as a Weapon”
HREC Education conducts professional master classes for educators that train teachers to develop students’ critical and historical thinking skills, focusing on human rights and the Holodomor as a topic. For the Manitoba Social Science Teachers Association (MSSTA) 2023 annual conference (20 October 2023) entitled Teaching in an Age of Polarization and Extremism, HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw, along with Manitoba educator Orysia Petryshyn, co-presented a teacher training workshop about teaching the Holodomor and Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine to high school teachers on the Holodomor’s 90thanniversary. The conference is for MSSTA member educators interested in sharing their best practices in the areas of inquiry, collaborative learning strategies, land-based learning, and more and is a Manitoba Teachers Society PD Day which also included a Holodomor Exhibit at the Valley Gardens Middle School in Winnipeg, MB.
Kuryliw presented her workshop to 20 educators from across Manitoba, mostly non-Ukrainians – some of whom were already teaching it and others who will be teaching it. NHEC (the National Holodomor Education Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress) Manitoba members Valentina Noseworthy and Irka Balanwere also present with Petryshyn to set up a Holodomor Awareness and Education Resource table at the conference, which also functioned as a very attractive exhibit of resources about the Holodomor which can be used in classrooms. Manitoba is one of 3 major provinces which has included the Holodomor in its curriculum over the past 3 decades.
NHEC members Irka Balan, teacher Orysya Petryshyn, Valentina Kuryliw and NHEC member Valentina Noseworthy at the Holodomor Education and Awareness Resource table, MSSTA 20 OCT 2023
Manitoba educator Kelly Hiebert and 2020 HREC Educator Award
recipient meeting with Valentina Kuryliw at the MSSTA 2023 conference.
Valentina Kuryliw giving a teacher training workshop at the MSSTA Teaching in an Age of Polarization
and Extremism annual conference which took place at Valley Gardens Middle School in Winnipeg, MB.
For more information:
https://www.mssta.org/professional-development.html#:~:text=MSSTA%20is%20excited%20to%20announce,teachers%20from%20across%20the%20province