Description
Teachers
,
don't miss
this
special
opportunity to learn with
four
Smithsonian
museums
from hom
e
!
Register
for
this 14-week course
and
join a
n online
community of educators
for
an
immersive exploration of teaching with museum objects and works of art.
Museum educators will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students, whether online or in the classroom. Participants will discover how to teach with museum resources to engage students in deeper thinking and support content learning across disciplines. They'll learn to use the
Smithsonian Learning Lab
to curate digital resource collections, and share lesson ideas among a new network of colleagues.
Which Smithsonian Museums Will You Learn From?
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of American History
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Who Should
Enroll
?
Teachers of all subjects and grades are welcome to register. The program content will be most
readily
appli
cable to
humanities
teachers
.
What
is Required of Participants?
The course is self-paced, designed to be taken over
the course of
14 weeks, with one to two hours of content
assigned
per week. Participants
are
expected to view
all recorded video sessions and respond to reflection prompts using a discussion board.
Participants will
also
be expected to
create
a
digital resource
collection using the Smithsonian Learning Lab
.