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Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

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The Museum of Modern Art

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

650 ratings

Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding a range of subjects. Intended for primary and secondary teachers of all disciplines, Art & Activity builds upon the inquiry-based approaches of Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom, while delving into activity-based strategies that will make your students empowered participants.

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Introduction to Art and Activity

Welcome to Art and Activity: Interactive Strategies for Teaching with Art. Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding across a wide range of subjects. Establish your foundation by watching each module's video lectures and reviewing the required readings, artworks, and additional resources. Then, test your knowledge with the quizzes and be sure to comment on videos and post in the discussion forums to share your thoughts.

1.1 Introduction2:09

1.2 Why Activities?2:57

1.3 Philosophy Behind Active Learning6:14

1.4 Designing Engaging Activities6:32

1.5 Skills and Benefits of Activity-Based Learning3:00

Meet the Instructors

Jessica Baldenhofer
Associate Educator, School Visits & Partnerships
Education
Lisa Mazzola
Assistant Director, School and Teacher Programs
Department of Education
Stephanie Pau
Associate Educator, Interpretation & Research
Department of Education

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Welcome to Art and Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art.

We're here at the Museum of Modern Art and

I'm Jessica Baldenhofer, your lead instructor for this course.

I oversee school visits and partnerships here at MOMA.

>> I'm Lisa Mazzola, assistant director of school and teacher programs.

>> And I'm Stephanie Pau on the interpretation and research team at MOMA.

>> In this course we're modeling and share methods for

engaging students with works of art.

We'll focus on sharing ideas for lessons and

activities that provide active and experiential learning opportunities for

your students around a variety of art objects.

>> At MOMA, we believe that when students take an active role in their own learning,

they have deeper and more memorable experiences.

>> These object centered, activity based learning experiences

are strategies that you can use in a museum or classroom.

>> Each week, we'll give a sampling of many of the hands on activities we

use in the museum galleries and the classroom.

We'll explore the goals and benefits of each of these activities

while sharing modifications for students of different ages.

We'll illustrate the connections to standards and

share how these activities help to develop critical thinking and

visual literacy skills as well as provide assessment tools and strategies.

>> In the spirit of this course

we encourage you to do some of the activities yourself.

Course content will be supplemented by quizzes, as well as opportunities for

participating, sharing and

getting feedback in our peer to peer discussion forums.

The goal is for you to have a chance to share ideas and insights with each other.

>> Remember, you don't need a background in art or

art history to use these methods.

And, we also think that these methods can be applied across disciplines,

to historical or scientific objects, for example.

We look forward to hearing how you use these activities and

experiential learning opportunities in your classroom.

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