Category Archives: Teaching Tools
Teaching for Independence: Empowering Learning in the Art Museum
Prefatory Note: Before ArtMuseumTeaching.com went public, there were several months when it was simply my own personal (private) online space to reflect on my practice as well as larger issues around teaching and learning in museums. It was (and is)
Teaching for Independence: Empowering Learning in the Art Museum
Prefatory Note: Before ArtMuseumTeaching.com went public, there were several months when it was simply my own personal (private) online space to reflect on my practice as well as larger issues around teaching and learning in museums. It was (and is)
Why Museums Can Excel in Online Learning
“The recent development of MOOCs (massive open online courses) can provide museums with valuable possibilities for education, community outreach and multi-disciplinary collaboration.” The quote above by David Greenfield, a doctoral candidate in Learning Technologies at Pepperdine University, was part of
Why Museums Can Excel in Online Learning
“The recent development of MOOCs (massive open online courses) can provide museums with valuable possibilities for education, community outreach and multi-disciplinary collaboration.” The quote above by David Greenfield, a doctoral candidate in Learning Technologies at Pepperdine University, was part of
Sweet Spots for Engaging Parents in Family Spaces
Museum Educators know that providing experiences for family audiences are a valuable way to advance the museum’s mission, expand its audience, and strengthen its place within the community. A relatively new way many museums are providing for families is with
Sweet Spots for Engaging Parents in Family Spaces
Museum Educators know that providing experiences for family audiences are a valuable way to advance the museum’s mission, expand its audience, and strengthen its place within the community. A relatively new way many museums are providing for families is with
A Teaching Interview: THE Audition for Museum Educators
Stricken with those awful nerves that overcome your system while you try to remember those lines you were up past midnight cramming into your head, you cling to your crumpled, dingy papers for dear life – the papers that contain
A Teaching Interview: THE Audition for Museum Educators
Stricken with those awful nerves that overcome your system while you try to remember those lines you were up past midnight cramming into your head, you cling to your crumpled, dingy papers for dear life – the papers that contain
Improv(e) Your Teaching
When I left the improv world after 10 years, I was never going back. I had just gotten a job at my first NYC museum (NY Transit Museum!) and was back in school for art history, ready to put acting
Improv(e) Your Teaching
When I left the improv world after 10 years, I was never going back. I had just gotten a job at my first NYC museum (NY Transit Museum!) and was back in school for art history, ready to put acting
Object Stories: Rejecting the Single Story in Museums
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken
Object Stories: Rejecting the Single Story in Museums
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken
Tableaux Vivant: History and Practice
With the growing popularity of kinesthetic teaching strategies, I frequently hear the term ‘tableaux vivant’ thrown around. How does the activity actually work, and where did it come from? A close look at the history of the practice illuminates this
Tableaux Vivant: History and Practice
With the growing popularity of kinesthetic teaching strategies, I frequently hear the term ‘tableaux vivant’ thrown around. How does the activity actually work, and where did it come from? A close look at the history of the practice illuminates this
Challenging Ourselves: Strategies to Reflect on Our Practice
As managing museum educators, it’s often difficult to find new ways to help our educators grow. Often we work with seasoned, experienced, and creative educators who are teaching in the schools as well as the museum and planning with teachers
Challenging Ourselves: Strategies to Reflect on Our Practice
As managing museum educators, it’s often difficult to find new ways to help our educators grow. Often we work with seasoned, experienced, and creative educators who are teaching in the schools as well as the museum and planning with teachers
Making the Introduction: Museum School Visits
Almost every museum offers some sort of “introduction to art” among its school visits themes and programs. It sounds so simple, right? Tempting to a teacher, maybe – but daunting to an educator. Finding a way for students to gain
Making the Introduction: Museum School Visits
Almost every museum offers some sort of “introduction to art” among its school visits themes and programs. It sounds so simple, right? Tempting to a teacher, maybe – but daunting to an educator. Finding a way for students to gain
A Manifesto for Schools Visiting Art Museums
An important aspect of our role as art museum educators is to welcome and induct teachers and their students into museum protocols in a way that is warm and inviting. There are so many ‘do’s and don’ts’ about visiting the
A Manifesto for Schools Visiting Art Museums
An important aspect of our role as art museum educators is to welcome and induct teachers and their students into museum protocols in a way that is warm and inviting. There are so many ‘do’s and don’ts’ about visiting the
Dancing to Jackson Pollock: Exploring Multi-Modal Responses to Art
Originally posted on ArtMuseumTeaching.com on February 5, 2012 – the site’s inaugural post. As schools and museums work to meet the demands of the 21st century, there has been a renewed emphasis on developing an interdisciplinary culture of inquiry where
Dancing to Jackson Pollock: Exploring Multi-Modal Responses to Art
Originally posted on ArtMuseumTeaching.com on February 5, 2012 – the site’s inaugural post. As schools and museums work to meet the demands of the 21st century, there has been a renewed emphasis on developing an interdisciplinary culture of inquiry where
Piensa en Arte and Critical Pedagogy
Co-authored with Jessica de la Garza, Museum Educator Advisor for Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City, Mexico. Utilice este lazo para traducir esta página en español. To what extent is the practice of museum teaching a truly democratic
Piensa en Arte and Critical Pedagogy
Co-authored with Jessica de la Garza, Museum Educator Advisor for Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City, Mexico. Utilice este lazo para traducir esta página en español. To what extent is the practice of museum teaching a truly democratic
