The most transformative learning experiences happen when students move from passive observers to active creators. This course offers techniques for activity-based teaching, a methodology that uses hands-on engagement and multimodal prompts to make modern and contemporary art resonate with your students. By adopting the strategies used by leaders in the field of museum education, you will learn how to turn your classroom into a dynamic studio where students think through making art.
Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art
This course is part of Teaching with Art: Using Inquiry, Activities, and Themes Specialization



Instructors: Larissa Raphael
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Build activities that accommodate diverse learning styles—incorporating writing, movement, and making to ensure art is accessible to all.
Learn how to facilitate prompts that empower students to make their own choices, transforming them into active participants in the learning process.
Connect academic standards to creative, student-centered projects that satisfy curriculum requirements while sparking genuine inspiration.
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Reviewed on Dec 25, 2015
I learnt a lot from this course and I can apply it my classes forward going. It's a good introduction to being an art educator especially for me as I am not trained in the art area.
Reviewed on Feb 3, 2018
This course is very useful and inspiring! There are interesting ready-made ideas of activities and mainly good descriptions of its principles of creation in this course. Highly recommend!
Reviewed on Mar 8, 2021
This course is fantastic! I have taught Integrating the Arts for more than 30 years and this course offered new ideas and perspectives that will shape my teaching.
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