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The Museum of Modern Art

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

The most impactful learning happens 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. You will also gain fluency in designing activities that bridge the gap between works of art and the lived experiences of your students. Whether you are a new teacher building your first lesson plans or a seasoned professional looking to reinvigorate your curriculum, this course provides a toolkit of creative prompts that foster close looking, and critical thinking. Finally, you will learn to facilitate learning environments where students use art as a vehicle to express their own voices and identities.

Status: Creative Thinking
Status: Learning Strategies
IntermediateCourse12 hours

Featured reviews

MP

5.0Reviewed 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!

BW

4.0Reviewed 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

RF

5.0Reviewed Jun 5, 2020

It was such a great experience to me. The course is very engaging and well explained. I also like the provided material, readings, videos, artworks. Bravo!

AJ

5.0Reviewed Aug 25, 2019

Very interesting and helpful course for art educators and educators in general. Inputs are very clear and easily understandable. Brilliant mentors/instructors. Very well planned course.

PD

5.0Reviewed Apr 21, 2020

Excellent content, information, resources and teachers. It is challenging and innovative, I really enjoyed everything I learned about and I think it will be super usefull.

SA

5.0Reviewed 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.

LB

5.0Reviewed Apr 7, 2022

This is such a complete course! It is direct, straight to the point, engaging, visual and nice to follow! I would love to read more of the other student's projects!

CS

4.0Reviewed Mar 3, 2016

Interesting beginning level class for those who are interested in teaching arts. You can have great activities, instructors and classmates and the whole learning process is just so fun!

LL

5.0Reviewed Oct 20, 2016

I really enjoyed the class. It was well put together, interesting, and gave me a lot of great ideas. Great for a new teacher or a refresher for an experienced teacher looking for new lessons.

SW

5.0Reviewed Oct 11, 2015

I found this very interesting and easily adaptable to the Visible Thinking exercises I currently use with the 9th and 10th grade English classes. Thank you for your insights.

SS

5.0Reviewed 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.

V

4.0Reviewed Jan 15, 2021

A different perspective of looking into art. Mind blowing thought process. Thanks to Coursera and MoMa for providing me this opportunity to gain knowledge in a fascinating way.

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