Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom

Instructor: Larissa Raphael , Francis Estrada , Lisa Mazzola

Intermediate Level • 1 week at 10 hours a week • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • Understand the definition of inquiry and learn how to develop engaging inquiry-based lessons
  • Understand the benefits of inquiry-based learning and its impact on students’ personal development and critical thinking skills
  • Analyze the qualities, formats, and instruction techniques that facilitate collective meaning making
  • Practice inquiry-based learning from a student’s perspective

Skills You'll Gain

Student Engagement
Discussion Facilitation
Liberal Arts
Self-Awareness
Social Studies
Emotional Intelligence
Instructional Strategies
Learning Styles
Creativity
Teaching
Literacy
Empathy
Curriculum Planning
Critical thinking

Shareable Certificate

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 5 modules in this course

Welcome to Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom. This course will introduce ways to integrate works of art into your classroom by using inquiry-based teaching methods commonly used in museum settings. This course is designed to give you the tools to create meaningful object-based learning activities that can be integrated into a wide variety of curricula. The strategies this course covers emphasize literacy and critical thinking skills across disciplines.

In this module you will explore different ways to facilitate close looking with your students by engaging in open-ended, inquiry-based conversation around works of art.

In this module, we will explore how art and Social Emotional Learning can deepen students’ attention, self-awareness, as well as their awareness of others.

This module focuses on activities as a mode of inquiry. In this module you’ll explore how to use three kinds of activities in your classroom to effectively promote an exchange of ideas with students.

In this module you will consider ways to incorporate inquiry about a work of art into your classroom and make connections to different subject areas including Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Science.