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Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom

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.

Status: Education and Training
Status: Pedagogy
IntermediateCourse12 hours

Featured reviews

SM

Reviewed May 28, 2020

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.

MC

Reviewed Jul 4, 2020

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

Reviewed Jan 7, 2025

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

Reviewed Jun 24, 2021

very engaging and inspiring course with lots of insights and practical tips in enquiry based and open ended learning.

DW

Reviewed Mar 5, 2016

Outstanding course! I am a museum docent and found strategies presented extremely successful for museum teaching..

KL

Reviewed Jun 21, 2020

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

Reviewed Jun 2, 2020

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

Reviewed 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!

NK

Reviewed Apr 3, 2023

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

Reviewed 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.

JR

Reviewed Feb 19, 2019

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

Reviewed Jun 7, 2020

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.

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