The most effective classrooms are not spaces for delivering answers, but laboratories for asking questions that facilitate collective meaning making. This course provides a framework for inquiry-based teaching—a student-centered methodology that uses art to spark deep critical thinking and collaborative dialogue. By using the strategies developed by leaders in the field of museum education, you will learn to facilitate a process of close looking and evidence-based reasoning that empowers your students to lead their own learning journeys. Career Application: Whether you are a new teacher building your first lesson plan or a seasoned professional looking to reinvigorate your practice, this course equips you with the tools to turn modern and contemporary art into an accessible springboard for inquiry.
MC
I am an IB teacher and this course perfectly compliment my training. I can't wait to start using art and objects more as provocations and inquiries.
AB
It's far more enlightening that I expected, you never really know what you're going to learn unless you open yourself up to it.
BP
very engaging and inspiring course with lots of insights and practical tips in enquiry based and open ended learning.
DW
Outstanding course! I am a museum docent and found strategies presented extremely successful for museum teaching..
KL
I loved this course. It has an abundance of resources and wider reading available and I've become really passionate about Museum Education now I've completed it!
NC
Truly amazing course! I loved the content and resources. I truly enjoyed the final project and the opportunity to view the work of my peers.
SW
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!
NK
This is a great eye-opening course! I have learned a lot. I recommend it to all teachers who want to improve their teaching skills.
RP
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.
JR
Excellent, really opened my eyes to a type of teaching that I had not been exposed to and seems to work just as well for adults as it does for children.
IT
I loved having a theory + practical approach to a new teaching strategy. Seeing and reading actual examples of how this dynamic works gave me the confidence to try it myself in my classroom.
LL
This course has taught me new ways in which to engage with artwork and how to get a classroom to a classroom to engage with a piece of artwork!
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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.
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.
For a free course, this program helped develop some new ideas and approaches for how to interact with guests and develop more child-friendly and inclusive programs for field trips.
Excellent, really opened my eyes to a type of teaching that I had not been exposed to and seems to work just as well for adults as it does for children.
Very well designed course for effective outcomes. This course has helped me a lot to take constructive steps to improve my classroom experiences. Now my students as well as I are enjoying the classes. I used to use certain techniques only for a limited area of my lessons but this course helped me to understand and discover more ways to incorporate art with other subjects. It has also improved my own learning experiences. I am highly grateful to get the opportunity to take the course. Thanks a lot to Coursera. Special thanks to Lisa Mazzola and Stephanie Pau.
I found this course very helpful in making me rethink the way I teach - moving from a lecture mode where I present information to students whilst they force themselves to try and focus or fall asleep to teaching using questions whilst inserting information at helpful points to guide the conversation. I am a homeschooling Mum and a church pastor, and in both those settings I have found this course to be very insightful and transformational in the way I teach and can promote creative thinking and engagement with students.
Thank you very much for that really instructive and inspirational course. I had so much fun developing the final assignment and I am really excited to see if it works in reality. I still have to excercise asking questions spontaneously and beeing more proactive with asking back during these conversations. But I am positive I can learn that soon. Thank you for your hard work and I am excited to start with one of the other MoMA-Moocs soon. :)
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Es un muy buen curso, lo recomiendo muchísimo, me ayudó mucho a ver cómo incluir el arte en clases y asignaturas que no están relacionadas 100% con el arte. Además, hay muchas técnicas y recursos que se pueden implementar no solo con el arte, sino que en muchos ámbitos. Si te gusta el arte y la educación ¡Toma este curso!
I am re-entering Art education and I found course to be a great resource. I thought the readings were well chosen and very informative. It was really interesting to read/review other course participants final projects. This is a great course for anyone wanting to learn how to teach with art in any subject.
This course was well organized with a variety of source material. This content is extremely relevant to my daily work as a high school art teacher. Though taking this course, I was exposed to free resources from the museum website that I would not have known about, which is invaluable. Thank you, Moma!
Helping strategies to help engagement through inquiry. Activates natural curiosity and challenges for meaningful engagement and learning in the classroom. Taps into deeper personal and enlightening connections to content to create bridges for meaning. Instead of teaching at students, learn with them.
Se me hizo interesante combinar el arte, como estrategia para la educación y más dónde el aula sea un museo. Lo hacen más interactivo y más enriquecedor, tanto para los alumnos, cómo para el maestro. Y realmente este espacio invita a aprender, interactuar y la mayor participación de alumnos.
Hi folks,
I thank you for the opportunity, from Brazil, to add to the experience and the curriculum, the importance of teaching art and its techniques to the classroom. We know that this path is a great facilitator for everyday learning, reflection, and interpretation.
Thank you.
Congratulations to MoMA staff on presenting a clear review of the use of objects to support Socratic education. Blending in local museums with K-12 education should be a universal path to forging critical thinking and inquiry.
Me ha gustado la participación directa de profesionales de la educación y los museos, así como las diferentes modalidades de actividades planteadas (foros, cuestionarios, vídeos, lecturas y un largo etcétera).
The approach is a fun way to engage students in their learning. I have been empowered/inspired with approaches that will leverage my students to a higher performance and social appreciation for visual arts.
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Great instructor and inspiring content. Inquiry is an essential way to approach life. With this course you will realize how applicable and necessary art is in any field/subject/context.
It was a very interesting course! Well-structure and nice to attend! I learned a lot of new things and I also had some ideas for using Art and Inquiry in my classroom! Thank you MoMa