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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BW
Reviewed on Nov 6, 2020
Content is fantastic and easy to use. Assessment process could be more rigorous as peer learners seem to just review for the sake of reviewing, needs more credibility
MP
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!
SA
Reviewed on Jan 8, 2024
It is an incredible course that has taught me the invaluable skill of connecting theory with practice, specifically in the field of museum education.
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