The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Teaching with Museum Objects
Offered By: Smithsonian Institution via edX
Course Description
Overview
Educators, discover how museum objects and inquiry-based strategies can enhance your students’ learning across the curriculum! Enroll in this three-course series led by museum educators from across the Smithsonian Institution and gain new teaching tools you can immediately put to use in your classroom. Learn to use Harvard Project Zero thinking routines with museum objects to cultivate critical thinking, and practice curating digital resource collections using the Smithsonian Learning Lab.
Teachers of all subjects and grades are welcome to register in these courses. The program content will be most readily applicable to humanities teachers.
Syllabus
Course 1: Interdisciplinary Teaching with Museum Objects
Educators from four Smithsonian museums will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students, whether online or in the classroom.
Course 2: The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Interrogating the Stories We Tell
Educators from six Smithsonian museums will dive deeply into the objects in their collections to interrogate the stories we know and tell our students. They will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students.
Course 3: The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Inspiring Civic Engagement
Discover how museum objects can help learners explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a democracy and inspire civic action.
Courses
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Teachers, don't miss this special opportunity to learn with four Smithsonian museums from home! Register for this 14-week course and join an 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?
Who Should Enroll?
Teachers of all subjects and grades are welcome to register. The program content will be most readily applicable 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.
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In this course, you’ll discover how museum objects and works of art can broaden our perspectives, reveal silenced stories, and make relevant connections to our world today. 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.
Teachers, join six Smithsonian museums for 14-weeks of teacher professional development from home. We’ll introduce the Smithsonian Learning Lab, a free, online platform for accessing digital museum resources and creating interactive learning experiences with them. Participants will discover how to teach with museum resources to engage students in deeper thinking and support content learning across disciplines.
Over the duration of the course, you will reflect on what you have learned and workshop ideas to create a learning experience for your classroom.
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How can educators of all disciplines prepare students to be active and informed participants in a democracy? Join us to explore this question through the lens of six Smithsonian collections! Discover how museum objects can help learners explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a democracy and inspire civic action.
All educators are welcome. This institute is ideal for classroom teachers. This course is part of the Smithsonian Summer Sessions series. The previous courses are not a prerequisite for this course, the courses can be accessed here.
Taught by
Maureen Leary, Candra Flanagan, Abby Pfisterer, Dr. Orlando Serrano, Ashleigh D. Coren, Briana Zavadil White, Elizabeth Dale-Deines, Phoebe Hillemann, Tess Porter, Dr. Philippa Rappoport, Kirsten McNally, Cecilia Vidal, Jessie Aucoin and Anna Fogerson Hindley
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