All books and films come with a poster for classroom use. Three CD Roms have been released for the moment, including Return to Life and the Clips of Humanity. Some consider modern technology an integral part of their classrooms, others disagree. We travel around the country once a week and offer seminars to 1,000 teachers weekly. They attend one of our seminars each year.
Teachers attend the course voluntarily.
Those who teach the matriculation classes make up only a small percentage of attendees, says Imber. Most of those who take part want to be able to teach Holocaust studies properly and feel it is important to be properly trained. Aryeh Geiger, headmaster of a pluralistic religious school in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem said he uses material from ISHS to teach Holocaust at his school starting in grade 9. The most intense holocaust curriculum at his school is geared at his school is geared for grade 11 in preparation for an annual school trip to Poland senior year. Geiger, himself did a year long course with Yad Vashem in conjunction with Minhal Hahevra ve Hanoar, the department of the Ministry of Education that deals with student trips to Poland.