Information for Teachers

Guidelines for teachers WPP 2023.pdf

Instructions for Lead Teachers

You are not just bringing your students to an activity; you, the teacher, will be helping to facilitate all of the activities. Please attend the Diplomacy Corps meeting on December 4 and read all of the materials very carefully. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask Sassie or Amy.

If you missed the preparation session on December 4, or if you need a little review, please view the recording of the session.

04.12 Diplomacy Corps Summit Day Prep.mp4

Sarah has prepared a detailed instructional video for teachers. I ask that the teachers who are leading Summit days (highlighted in yellow on the Summit Day Assigned Dates sheet) set some time aside to view this.

WPP 2023.pdf

And this video is specifically for teachers attending the summit day with a class for the first time.

wpp 1st time .mp4

Remember to notify your administration that you are attending a special event with your students during the specified hours, so that they can both arrange for a substitute to cover your teaching hours (if necessary) and so the students' absence from other lessons is justified. You may also need to arrange for another teacher to accompany you on the trip, according to the number of students you have. There should be a 10:1 ratio. Ideally, this would be a teacher with good English, who will be helping to facilitate and debrief a group of students.


Schedule

Schools which are scheduled for early sessions should arrive no later than 9:15. The early session will be finished by 13:30. Schools scheduled for late sessions should arrive no later than 11:15 and will be finished by 15:30. Following is a more detailed schedule:

Early Session

9:30-9:35 Introduction

9:35-10:00 Ice Breaker (A1, A2, etc)

10:05-10:45 Exhibit Missions (A1, A2, etc)

10:45-11:35 Guided Tour (A, B, C, etc)

11:35-12:00 Lunch

12:00-12:30 Debriefing (A, B, C, etc)

12:30-13:10 Photo Essay Activity (A1, A2, etc)

13:10-13:30 Conclusion and home

13:30 Call for buses

Late Session

11:30-11:35 Introduction

11:35-12:00 Ice Breaker (A1, A2, etc)

12:05-12:45 Exhibit Missions (A1, A2, etc)

12:45-13:35 Guided Tour (A, B, C, etc)

13:35-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Debriefing (A, B, C, etc)

14:30-15:10 Photo Essay Activity (A1, A2, etc)

15:10-15:30 Conclusion and home

15:30 Call for buses

Instructions for Payment for the Summit Day

The office of the Eretz Israel Museum should contact the teacher from each school who is responsible for the tenth graders for the summit day. The teacher needs to fill out this form and send it back to them. The cost is 26 shekels per student.

טופס הזמנה ופרטי לקוח.docx

Food

The Eretz Israel Museum does not have a place to buy food once you have entered the museum, and students will not be allowed to exit and re-enter to get lunch. Please make sure your students bring enough food for the day.

For each session that is being facilitated only by the teachers, one teacher has been assigned the role of Lead Teacher. She/He will be responsible for creating a WhatsApp group to communicate with the other teachers in the group and making sure everyone understands what they must do for the day. In addition, they will be in contact with the Lead Guide (a twelfth grade student) to make sure there is not any confusion and to notify in case of people arriving late, etc. The Lead Guide will also appear in bold on the guides list.

Summit Day Assigned Dates

Summit Day Groups

Below is a color-coded document. Find the session you have registered for, and fill in your students' names in English in pairs or threes in the colored spots allotted to your school. If the number of students in your 10th grade class has changed since you registered for the Summit Day, please contact Sassie to update your details on all of the documents throughout the site. If you are confused about how to enter your students' names, please see my example for Yachad Modiin on January 9 in the Early Session. Be careful when you edit this document that you do not delete any names that other people have entered. If you make a mistake, just click the "undo" back arrow.

On the morning of the Summit Day, if you have students absent, you will make minor changes on the spot.

Please arrive to the Summit Day with white sticker name tags (provided by you) which tell the student's name, school, and group, for example,

Sassie YonaYachad Modiin Group A2
Color-coded WPP Groups 2023

World Press Photo Exhibition – Photos for 10th graders to prepare and present

Prior to Summit Day, your class will prepare one (or two if you have a very large class) of the six selected photo essays to present during the guided tour. Students will study and analyze the photo essay. The presentations of the photo should relate to:

  • a little bit of background on the photographer

  • analysis using rules of photo composition

  • location and cultural themes

  • the story behind the photo essay

  • how you relate personally to the photo story

During the guided tour of the exhibit, there will be five groups, A, B, C, D, and E. When their group arrives at the photo essay your students have prepared, they should step forward to present it. Their presentation should be no longer than 2 minutes. They can have one student in the group present, or they can plan to collaborate, with different students in the group presenting different aspects. There needs to be one presentation from each group (A, B, C, etc.).

In the past, tenth graders have found these presentations to be very meaningful and empowering.

Following are links to the photo essays to choose from. After viewing them, please go into the Photo Essay Presentation Choice document, and choose which photo essay your students will present in the museum. Be aware that we will not know which specific photos in each photo essay will be on display in the Eretz Israel Exhibit until the end of December. Therefore, your students should prepare to present the story, and not a specific photo. Be sure not to delete other people's choices. If you make a mistake on the document (by inadvertently deleting someone else's choice), please just click the "undo" back arrow.


  1. Kamloops Residential School

The hanging of red dresses as a visual response to the disproportionate violence faced by women with an Indigenous heritage

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2022/Amber-Bracken-POY/1



  1. Saving Forests with Fire

Indigenous Australians have strategically burned land to protect their environment for tens of thousands of years.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2022/matthew-abbott/1



  1. Ukraine Crisis

In November 2013, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv in Ukraine to protest against the decision of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to pull out of signing an association agreement with the European Union.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2022/Guillaume-Herbaut/1



  1. Human- Tiger Conflict

In India, Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) and residents of villages in and around animal sanctuaries come into conflict.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2022/senthil-kumaran/1



  1. The People Who Feed the US

The stories of migrants working in the US meatpacking industry sheds light on the lives many migrants lead once they reach their destination.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2022/ismail-ferdous/1



  1. Afraid to go to School

Nigeria is facing severe education challenges, as kidnappings of students for ransom by Islamist groups and armed gangs continue to impact schools in the north of the country.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2022/Sodiq-Adelakun-Adekola/1

Photo Essay Presentation Choice 2023

Debriefing

For the debriefing, students will get back into the groups they were in for the guided tour (A, B, C, D, and E). The teacher who was with them for the guided tour will lead the debriefing.

Exercise One (15 minutes)

Using the model of Speed Dating, students form two concentric circles facing each other. The teacher announces a question (see list below) and each pair of students takes turns answering. Then, the circle moves and the next question is asked, repeating several times. You may not have time for every question. Choose the questions that feel the most natural for you and your group of students.

Sample questions:

  1. Which picture from the exhibit will you remember, and why?

  2. What is the role of Photojournalism in society?

  3. Do you think photojournalism affects you? How?

  4. Have you seen some of these photos before? If so, which ones, and where?

  5. What is something new you learned today?

  6. This Exhibit describes itself as a tool for raising awareness. Do you think these photos raise awareness or create change? Explain.


Exercise Two (15 minutes)

For this activity, teachers need to have the debriefing photos. If you are in a group that is facilitated by Sarah, she will give you the photos. If you are in a group that is facilitated by the teachers, you need to be sure that the photos have been printed out in advance, and that each of the teacher facilitators has a copy. The photos can be found below.


Have your students stand up and get ready to move around. The teacher will show the debriefing photos one by one to the group, and ask a couple of the questions below, having students move according to their response. (Choose whichever questions you and your students connect with most. You will not ask every question about every photo. Do what you have time for and what feels like you have had enough time for a meaningful reflection.) For each question, ask two or three students from each group to explain why they chose to stand where they did. (Sometimes, students choose to stand in the center. Also let them explain why.)


  1. Does this photo make you feel hopeful/sad? (Ask question that suits the photo.) If yes, stand on the right side; if no, stand on the left side.

  2. Can you imagine the feelings of the person in the photo? If yes, stand on the right side; if no, stand on the left side.

  3. Does this photo make you want to make a change in your life or not? If yes, stand on the right side; if no, stand on the left side.

  4. Do you feel you can relate to the topic of the photo? If yes, stand on the right side; if no, stand on the left side.



When finished with debriefing, explain the instructions for the Photo Essay Activity.


Group Photo Essay Activity - 30-40 minutes

For the this activity, students will get back into their small groups they were in for the Ice Breaker and the Exhibit Missions (A1, B2, etc).

This activity is good practice for the Unit 3A product. The best photo essays will be posted on the Diplomacy WPP site and on the National Diplomacy site!

Imagine you are a team of citizen journalists, and you want to share a story with people from all around the world. This is your chance!

Part One: Set Up

  1. Create a WhatsApp group for your team, if you haven't already.

  2. The name of your WhatsApp group is your team name.

  3. Use your team selfie for your Whatsapp group profile photo.


Part Two: Creating an original Team Photo-Essay

A photo-essay is a series of original photographs that communicates a message or creates emotions in the viewer. Your group will take 4-6 photographs for the Team Photo-Essay.

You can choose between two topics:

1- Profile of a person. A great way to get to know someone is to profile them in a photo essay.

Pick 2-3 people from your group and interview them.

Get to know them and a few facts about them (about their hobbies, their dreams, their family etc...)

Turn the interviews into short texts + take 2-3 photos of each person you interview. These photos must tell us something about who they are.


2- Contrasts. A contrast is a clear difference between two or more things.

We are surrounded by contrasts: Shapes, colors, cultures, natural and artificial etc...

Contrasts and differences are what make our world rich and interesting. Your group needs to create a photo essay about contrasts.



Instructions: You will work as a team! Be creative. You can go anywhere you want around the museum. You must take original photos for the purpose of this task.

  1. Your group will take 4-6 photos.

  2. Write a one-sentence caption for each photo.

  3. Write a paragraph to describe the whole photo-essay.

  4. Be sure to include a title page, giving your photo essay a name, writing the names and schools of the students on the team, and the date you attended the summit day.

  5. When you arrive home, one representative from the group will put together the entire photo essay on a Canva Storyboard. Choose a template from this link.

  6. Here is an example

  7. Download and send the finished work to your teacher by tomorrow. Your teacher will coordinate with the other teachers in the group to decide which photo essays to forward to Sassie for consideration for uploading to the site.

Photos for Debriefing: