Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods originally developed for in-gallery museum education.
Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
Offered By
The Museum of Modern Art
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
11 hour to complete
Module 1: Introduction to Inquiry | Why Engage in Inquiry Around Art?
This course will introduce ways to integrate works of art into your classroom by using inquiry-based teaching methods commonly used in museum settings. It is designed to give you the tools to create meaningful object-based learning activities that can be integrated into a wide variety of curricula. All the strategies covered emphasize literacy and critical thinking skills that connect across disciplines.
2 videos (Total 11 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
2 videos
1.2 Why Engage in Inquiry Around Art?9m
1 reading
1.3 Required Readings & Additional Resources10m
1 practice exercise
1.4 Quiz26m
Week
22 hours to complete
Module 2: Close-Looking and Open-Ended Inquiry
In this module we will discuss and review the different ways that you can facilitate close-looking with your students and engaging in open-ended, inquiry-based conversation around works of art. Don’t wait to start practicing! Grab a friend or a family member and start leading inquiry-based conversation around a work of art, or anything. As you will see in the Google Hangout video, you can use a digital image or any object that you have around that would lend itself to leading an inquiry-based discussion. These practice sessions are not required but the more you practice, the easier and better your classroom performance will be.
3 videos (Total 67 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
3 videos
2.2 Close-Looking and Open-Ended Inquiry12m
2.3 Inquiry in Action: Google Hangout about Art & Identity53m
1 reading
2.4 Required Readings & Additional Resources10m
1 practice exercise
2.5 Quiz20m
Week
324 minutes to complete
Module 3: Activities as Inquiry
This section explores interactive methods that promote an open-ended, two-way exchange of ideas and engage a specific set of skills including close-looking, peer-to-peer learning, creative thinking, and problem-solving.
2 videos (Total 14 min), 1 reading
1 reading
3.3 Required Readings & Additional Resources10m
Week
44 hours to complete
Module 4: Putting it all Together: Making Connections Across Curriculum
In this module we will model ways that you can incorporate inquiry around a work of art into your classroom and make connections to curricula. We will also explore the types of resources that you can access to supplement your lesson development and planning.
4 videos (Total 134 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
4 videos
4.2 Putting it all Together: Making Connections Across Curriculum9m
4.3 #ArtHang with MoMA Learning: Open House with Lisa Mazzola3m
4.4 #ArtHang with MoMA Learning: Open House with Lisa Mazzola and Author Laurel Schmidts
1 reading
Funding for Education at MoMA10m
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Top Reviews
Its an amazing course for teaching strategies not only classrooms but also informal teaching techniques. I enjoyed the course and it create an experience with artworks and museum learning.
Great! this course gives amazing activities and ideas for the classroom, but it also gives you smart strategies for us to connect and evaluate a work of art differently.
Instructor
Lisa Mazzola
Assistant Director, School and Teacher ProgramsDepartment of Education
About The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world's finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Our mission is helping you understand, enjoy, and use the art of our time.
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