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The Museum of Modern Art

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

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. 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: Analytical Skills
Status: Instructional 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

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.

RR

5.0Reviewed Jul 4, 2019

Easy to understand if you have the interest in teaching. Reading was easier for me than watching the videos. Nontheless good course for newbies!

EG

5.0Reviewed Feb 15, 2020

Love the material provided. The explanations are great and the last work for assessment sums everything up in a very good way to test the content learned and if we are really able to apply it.

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.

MS

5.0Reviewed Mar 25, 2016

Excellent course that taught many methods to develop engagning activities with different ages in a museum setting. Excellent reading list and theory.

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!

MM

5.0Reviewed Jun 20, 2020

Great material! It was an engaging course and very enjoyable to take. I appreciate MoMA professionals for putting it together and making it free for everyone. This is a true treasure. Thank you.

LA

5.0Reviewed Jul 29, 2023

Great course with so much practical information and direct tips and advices built upon personal experiences. Wonderful work MoMa. I would definitely take more courses.

SM

5.0Reviewed Feb 2, 2016

This course has proven very useful and relevant in helping me to develop new and exciting activities for my English as a Second Language Class.

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.

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