Redesigning Advising? Online Course Provides Opportunity to Learn from Leading Colleges and Universities – Urban University. This blog was originally published on the EDUCAUSE Review, Transforming Higher Ed blog on April 28, 2017 Last year, as program manager for the Personalized Learning Consortium of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and with a video production crew on hand, I visited five colleges and universities. These institutions, all five of them, successfully increased student success through the implementation of campus-wide, proactive advising systems, supported by the strategic use of technology. I made these trips to see first-hand how each institution had transformed their advising policies and practices and capture it on video. My goal: to identify key lessons that could be broadly shared. While many colleges and universities are aware of the need for and potential benefits of campus-wide advising reform, a lot of leaders are less sure about how to start.
It’s understandable because the process of a change like this can be complicated, costly, and time-consuming. 1807 commemorated - how the abolition of slavery has been commemorated. 1807 Commemorated engages with the ways in which the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade is commemorated in Britain and the public memories which are shaped by it.
This remembrance is highly significant as it structures and informs notions of personal, family, regional and national identity. Working with our partner museums, these issues are highlighted through this website by studying the manner of representation in the media, museums and commemorative sites, and by offering a forum where these matters can be debated. Developing through a three-phase structure, 1807 Commemorated creates a framework which can be used to comprehend the public memory of the bicentenary, and the design and implementation of strategies for policy-makers and museum practitioners concerned with the representation of traumatic pasts. back to the top. What management lessons from teaching transfer to the museum? | Museum Questions. Anthony Pennay drafted parts of the following post as a comment on my post “Why do we need classroom management in museums?”
He had so much to say that I asked if we could delve a little deeper into some of his points. Tony was a classroom teacher for a decade before becoming a museum educator. He taught middle school English, Social Studies, Journalism, & Creative Writing formally, and basic rules and codes of conduct informally. He is now the Director of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. What are some things you learned about classroom management as a teacher? Advice on what it took to manage a classroom well was as varied and contradictory as the teachers, books, articles, and videos that professed expertise. One teacher told me I needed to scare students straight and encouraged me to throw a book across the room in frustration.
When I observed these teachers, their classes seemed to work well. Yes and no. What is “Classroom Management” in the museum? | Museum Questions. On March 2, I blogged about classroom management, and invited readers to complete a (now closed) survey. The 29 completed surveys include a great deal of information worth mining, and I am trying to find a way to share all of the answers with anyone who might want to take a look. A number of people talked about the importance of engagement, and at a future date I hope to explore what people had to say about the relationship between engagement, program design, and management. In this post, however, I want to explore the question, “What is ‘classroom management’ in the museum?” Before exploring this question, I want to rename it.
The phrase “classroom management” is telling – it indicates that museum educators working with school groups conceptualize the galleries as an extension of the school experience, and that they approach students as classroom-defined groups. So – what did the surveys tell us about the question “What is ‘group management’ in the museum? 1. 2. 3. Like this: What is the role of research in museums’ K-12 programming? | Museum Questions. This guest post is from Michelle Grohe. For the past ten years Michelle has been the Director of School & Teacher Programs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has overseen the School Partnership, an intensive multiple-experience program with local Boston schools, including in-depth professional development with classroom teachers.
Michelle has taught courses using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) at Harvard Medical School and Simmons College and she is also the Eastern Region Representative for the National Art Education Association’s Museum Education division, for which she started the Peer to Peer initiative. I was very drawn to Lynda Kelly’s literature review, Student Learning in Museums: What Do We Know? , posted a few months ago on Museum Questions. Coding data capturing student thinking for aesthetic development, February 2014. There are two types of research in the field of museum education. What questions do you want to answer? Like this: Heritage Detectives — Arts & Science Center. Schools and Museums: Interview with Anna Cutler | Museum Questions. Anna Cutler is the Director of Learning at Tate in the United Kingdom. Before joining Tate Anna was the director of Creative Partnerships Kent, where she was involved with research into learning in the visual arts.
Why offer school tours? Students’ horizons have been so concertinaed into one perspective – museums offer an expanded vision of what life could be. Art asks “what if,” and there is almost nowhere in the curriculum to ask that these days. And field trips are important even if kids are just getting on a bus and talking to each other — research shows that children have five minutes of conversation in a six hour school day (in lesson time). The positive benefits of field trips are really high, given children’s daily trudge through subjects, which are not very exciting to them in my experience and research. We want to support teachers to extend their ideas and the curriculum content – we don’t want to deliver it or reflect it.
But purpose does matter. What can we do in an hour? Schools and Museums: Interview with Anne Kraybill | Museum Questions. Anne Kraybill is the Distance Learning Project Manager at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, where she is developing an online for-credit course for high school students in the state, and eventually the nation, to take online. She was formerly the Museum’s School and Community Programs Manager, where she oversaw the implementation of the Willard and Pat Walker School Visit Program and initiated a random-assignment evaluation measuring the impact of a one-time visit to an art museum. The research on field trips to Crystal Bridges is important and widely circulated. You looked at, and found you had impacted, students’ critical thinking, historical empathy, tolerance, and interest in art museums. Why did you choose these four areas to measure? When we first met with Jay Greene and Brian Kisida, we had not identified the outcomes of tolerance or historical empathy.
At our initial meeting they asked questions about what we hoped the program might accomplish. Like this: Like Loading... 3 ways to use artifacts in the social studies classroom (and build literacy skills) It’s day one of our Social Studies PLC and I am pumped. It’s always a great time and I’m always learning something new.
The core members of the group are from the Century of Progress Teaching American History grant project but in the last year, we’ve added a ton of new people. New people equals new ideas. New strategies and resources. So . . . yeah, it’s gonna be fun. We’ve settled into the habit of spending our mornings focusing on a specific topic. We’ll kick off this year the same way by spending the am talking about the best ways to use artifacts as teaching tools. (Update September 11 I used some photos of D-Day artifacts as an opener for the “What do they have in common?”
Chatting about the You’re the Historian web site, a cool historical thinking exercise designed for upper elementary kids.a “What do they have in common?” We’ll also be talking about what works best. Yeah. Like this: Like Loading... Museums in a Box - Create Your Own Mini Museum. Tang Museum | Faculty & Teaching. Skidmore faculty and Tang staff from the Mellon Faculty Seminar 2014 Left to Right: Michael Ennis-McMillan (Anthropology); Pat Oles (Social Work); Tang Dayton Director, Ian Berry; John Anzalone (Foreign Languages & Literatures); Tang Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, Rachel Seligman; Mark Hofmann (Mathematics & Computer Science); Gregory Spinner (Philosophy & Religion); Abby Drake (Biology); Monica Raveret Richter (Biology); Regina Janes (English); Pat Hilleren (Biology) In this section and throughout the Tang's website, you will find links to exhibitions, events, assignments, and pedagogies developed by Skidmore faculty to utilize the museum as an interdisciplinary teaching resource.
Skidmore faculty use the Tang, its exhibitions and collections as a resource for teaching, a classroom, and a subject for research and writing. Bringing Your Class The Tang offers self-guided and docent-led tours for college groups during normal gallery hours. Gallery Hours Collections Access. A LEGO Journey Through Time | Museum Diary. Last week I visited Hamburg for a short holiday, and it turned in to a bit of a museum marathon, due partly to the fact that there were a lot of thunderstorms which put an end to any plans of exploring the rest of the city. One of the exhibitions I saw I wanted to tell you about right away, as it’s only on until September. It was a 20 minute train ride from the city centre, but totally worth it (and 20 minutes isn’t really that long, when you consider it takes me twice as long to get to work).
“Lego Zeitreise”, or in English “Lego Journey Through Time” is a special exhibition at the Archaeological Museum Hamburg/ Helms-Museum. It includes twelve dioramas showing scenes from significant periods in history: Neanderthals, Babylon, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Vikings, the Middle Ages, the Wild West, the ‘Present’ – represented by a skyline of Hamburg, and the ‘Future’.
All created in miniature with thousands of Lego bricks! Stonehenge Building the Pyramids. The Educational Value of Field Trips. Crystal Bridges; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; School Tour © 2013 Stephen Ironside/Ironside PhotographyBo Bartlett – “The Box” – 2002 • Oil on Linen • 82 x 100 – Photographer is Karen Mauch The school field trip has a long history in American public education. For decades, students have piled into yellow buses to visit a variety of cultural institutions, including art, natural history, and science museums, as well as theaters, zoos, and historical sites.
Schools gladly endured the expense and disruption of providing field trips because they saw these experiences as central to their educational mission: schools exist not only to provide economically useful skills in numeracy and literacy, but also to produce civilized young men and women who would appreciate the arts and culture. Today, culturally enriching field trips are in decline. Museums across the country report a steep drop in school tours. We find that students learn quite a lot. Design of the Study and School Tours. Educators. Registration Open for New Online Courses | Connecting to Collections Online Community.
While registration is now closed for our webinar series Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures—Today, the content from those online courses is still available. We’ve archived all of our online courses–along with all of our webinars–in their entirety, from webinar recordings to handouts to resources. Feel free to explore at your own pace! Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures—Today is a free series of online courses dedicated to the preservation of archival and historical collections. Tailored to the needs of staff and volunteers at libraries and archives, each course has included four to six interactive webinars presented by preservation experts. While many of the courses are no longer actively in session, we hope the archive will continue to be a useful resource. Courses: Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures—Today is made possible through an Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Continuing Education grant to Heritage Preservation.
Museums in a Common Core World. As NMAH developed its new teacher training program, my colleagues and I worked with communities in eight states between January 2012 and July 2013, and I talked with curriculum supervisors and social studies coordinators in many more communities as I recruited participants. Over the course of that year and a half, the increase in the emphasis on Common Core in districts nationwide has been striking. When NMAH started our program, Common Core was a nice addition to our presentations. Now Common Core State Standards have been adopted as official guidelines for teaching and learning in all but five states and Puerto Rico, and it is necessary to begin any conversation about professional development with an outline of the content’s relationship to the Common Core.
Common Core Standards emphasize the use of original sources, close examination of text and other materials, and exploration of multiple perspectives. I’d love to see (or do!) SEEC | SEEC Smithsonian. We will continue to accept applications for Kindergarten until the March 1st lottery deadline. Out application rate to date has allowed us to determine that there is enough interest to operate a Kindergarten class for the 2014-15 school year! Nestled in the nation's capital in the richest museum complex in the world is the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, a model early childhood program that places children at the center of every experience. The vast collections are the foundation for the culturally diverse curriculum, which offers a rare opportunity for learning.
Our ordinary is extraordinary. Welcome to the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC)! Here we offer a rich learning environment for children, parents, and teachers in our community while at the same time sharing our innovative practices with professionals in schools and museums across the country. At SEEC the community is a vital part of our everyday lives. Museums are the Future of Education. The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning. Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today.
We’ve combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share. Below are links to the guides we have made so far. They’re always a work in progress so be sure to let us know if we missed something or if you have more resources you want us to call out in the guides. We’re always looking for the best and most useful resources so don’t be shy, share! Just click on the title or image of each guide to view that particular resource. The Teacher’s Guide To Twitter Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms We talk a lot about flipped classrooms on Edudemic.
The Teacher’s Guide To Copyright And Fair Use The Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass. Lift your (museum) game [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage. Games for Change | Games for Change is the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact. (2) Mystery at the Museum: a Collaborative Game for Museum Education | Eric Klopfer. Www.aam-us.org/docs/default-document-library/on-the-horizon-web-version.pdf?sfvrsn=0. UT Knoxville | Frank H. McClung Museum. Museum Management Program. Collections Management. Home School at the Brooks! « BEYOND THE FRAME. Springfield Museums launching educational program to help teach about Holocaust. Rubin Museum of Art:Education at the Rubin Museum of Art. Museum-Ed: Connecting the Museum Educator Community. Journal of Museum Education - Left Coast Press, Inc. Tools For Teaching. Teacher Creates Museum Experience in Classroom.