Modern and contemporary art can be dynamic tools for fostering empathy, critical inquiry, and social awareness. This Specialization empowers educators to use art as a catalyst for student-centered discovery. Guided by leaders in the field of museum education at The Museum of Modern Art, you will transform your teaching practice into a collaborative journey of inquiry and empower the next generation of critical thinkers. You will gain fluency in teaching strategies that turn the classroom into a space for big ideas. By exploring art through multimodal activities and accessible themes, you will be able to cultivate your students’ visual literacy and learn how to make complex concepts of identity and society resonate. Career Application: Whether you are a new teacher building your first lesson plans, or an established professional looking to reinvigorate your curriculum, you will acquire the resources to build an inclusive curriculum that bridges the gap between academic standards and the lived experiences of your students.
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.
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.
I really enjoyed learning so much about art in this class. I am an art teacher, but I have not received my art endorsement yet. This was really an enjoyable learning experience.
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.
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!
It was a great professional development course for out arts department. The best thing is being able to complete it at our own time.
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.
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.
Absolutely wonderful course, got to learn new things that i can implement in my virtual classroom...thanks to Coursera
very engaging and inspiring course with lots of insights and practical tips in enquiry based and open ended learning.
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!
Wonderful material, resources and a great course. Well done to Ms. Mazzola and the team at MoMA!
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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.
Its an amazing course for teaching strategies not only classrooms but also informal teaching techniques. I enjoyed the course and it create an experience with artworks and museum learning.
For a free course, this program helped develop some new ideas and approaches for how to interact with guests and develop more child-friendly and inclusive programs for field trips.
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.
Very well designed course for effective outcomes. This course has helped me a lot to take constructive steps to improve my classroom experiences. Now my students as well as I are enjoying the classes. I used to use certain techniques only for a limited area of my lessons but this course helped me to understand and discover more ways to incorporate art with other subjects. It has also improved my own learning experiences. I am highly grateful to get the opportunity to take the course. Thanks a lot to Coursera. Special thanks to Lisa Mazzola and Stephanie Pau.
I found this course very helpful in making me rethink the way I teach - moving from a lecture mode where I present information to students whilst they force themselves to try and focus or fall asleep to teaching using questions whilst inserting information at helpful points to guide the conversation. I am a homeschooling Mum and a church pastor, and in both those settings I have found this course to be very insightful and transformational in the way I teach and can promote creative thinking and engagement with students.
Thank you very much for that really instructive and inspirational course. I had so much fun developing the final assignment and I am really excited to see if it works in reality. I still have to excercise asking questions spontaneously and beeing more proactive with asking back during these conversations. But I am positive I can learn that soon. Thank you for your hard work and I am excited to start with one of the other MoMA-Moocs soon. :)
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Es un muy buen curso, lo recomiendo muchísimo, me ayudó mucho a ver cómo incluir el arte en clases y asignaturas que no están relacionadas 100% con el arte. Además, hay muchas técnicas y recursos que se pueden implementar no solo con el arte, sino que en muchos ámbitos. Si te gusta el arte y la educación ¡Toma este curso!
I am re-entering Art education and I found course to be a great resource. I thought the readings were well chosen and very informative. It was really interesting to read/review other course participants final projects. This is a great course for anyone wanting to learn how to teach with art in any subject.
This course was well organized with a variety of source material. This content is extremely relevant to my daily work as a high school art teacher. Though taking this course, I was exposed to free resources from the museum website that I would not have known about, which is invaluable. Thank you, Moma!
Helping strategies to help engagement through inquiry. Activates natural curiosity and challenges for meaningful engagement and learning in the classroom. Taps into deeper personal and enlightening connections to content to create bridges for meaning. Instead of teaching at students, learn with them.
Se me hizo interesante combinar el arte, como estrategia para la educación y más dónde el aula sea un museo. Lo hacen más interactivo y más enriquecedor, tanto para los alumnos, cómo para el maestro. Y realmente este espacio invita a aprender, interactuar y la mayor participación de alumnos.
Hi folks,
I thank you for the opportunity, from Brazil, to add to the experience and the curriculum, the importance of teaching art and its techniques to the classroom. We know that this path is a great facilitator for everyday learning, reflection, and interpretation.
Thank you.
Congratulations to MoMA staff on presenting a clear review of the use of objects to support Socratic education. Blending in local museums with K-12 education should be a universal path to forging critical thinking and inquiry.
Me ha gustado la participación directa de profesionales de la educación y los museos, así como las diferentes modalidades de actividades planteadas (foros, cuestionarios, vídeos, lecturas y un largo etcétera).
The approach is a fun way to engage students in their learning. I have been empowered/inspired with approaches that will leverage my students to a higher performance and social appreciation for visual arts.
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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.
It was a very interesting course! Well-structure and nice to attend! I learned a lot of new things and I also had some ideas for using Art and Inquiry in my classroom! Thank you MoMa