Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods used by museum educators.
Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
This course is part of Teaching with Art: Using Inquiry, Activities, and Themes Specialization
Instructors: Larissa Raphael
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Understand the definition of inquiry and learn how to develop engaging inquiry-based lessons
Understand the benefits of inquiry-based learning and its impact on students’ personal development and critical thinking skills
Analyze the qualities, formats, and instruction techniques that facilitate collective meaning making
Practice inquiry-based learning from a student’s perspective
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There are 5 modules in this course
Welcome to Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom. This course will introduce ways to integrate works of art into your classroom by using inquiry-based teaching methods commonly used in museum settings. This course is designed to give you the tools to create meaningful object-based learning activities that can be integrated into a wide variety of curricula. The strategies this course covers emphasize literacy and critical thinking skills across disciplines.
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2 videos8 readings1 assignment
In this module you will explore different ways to facilitate close looking with your students by engaging in open-ended, inquiry-based conversation around works of art.
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3 videos8 readings1 assignment
In this module, we will explore how art and Social Emotional Learning can deepen students’ attention, self-awareness, as well as their awareness of others.
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9 videos11 readings1 assignment
This module focuses on activities as a mode of inquiry. In this module you’ll explore how to use three kinds of activities in your classroom to effectively promote an exchange of ideas with students.
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3 videos7 readings1 assignment
In this module you will consider ways to incorporate inquiry about a work of art into your classroom and make connections to different subject areas including Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Science.
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3 videos11 readings1 assignment
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SW
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Reviewed on Oct 11, 2015
As with the other MoMA class, I found it very helpful for use with my 9th and 10th grade English classes. Thank you for the insights!
RP
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Reviewed on Aug 9, 2015
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.
JS
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Reviewed on Apr 21, 2020
I was able to take away a lot of interesting things for my teaching but also for my own way of interacting with art. Thank you!
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