FOR EDUCATORS
Plan your next Professional Development workshop at the Museum.
Professional Development K-16
The museum offers both live, online professional development workshops as well as on-site professional development workshops. Workshops are designed to engage teachers and administrators in participatory and meaningful experiences. NCMA’s education staff tailors workshops to meet individual classroom needs. All programs serve to introduce the museum as a resource for teaching, classroom learning and self care.
Teachers receive CTLE credit and a certificate of participation for all Professional Development Workshops.
Please contact Michelle Badzim, Manager of School Programs: mbadzim@nassaumuseum.org
On-site Professional Development
Museum Galleries and Sculpture Garden
Professional Development workshops are tailored to the needs of educators and administrators, K-16, in all disciplines. NCMA’s Professional Development workshops focus on how to use works of art as a resource for teaching. The workshops are object/art centered; inquiry based and are designed to engage viewers in a participatory and meaningful experience. Discussions in the galleries are facilitated by education staff and methodologies used are open-ended and multi-disciplinary. Educators will discuss the connections between what they learn during the workshop and their discipline.
Includes the following:
- Teachers will leave with sample activities that can be used in the classroom.
- Teachers will receive an Educator’s Resource Packet with images and a study guide.
Half Day – Half day: $900.00 for up to 30 teachers; Hands-on workshop for additional $100.00.
Full Day – $1,800 for up to 30 teachers and administrators; Hands-on workshop for additional $200.00.
Please contact Michelle Badzim – mbadzim@nassaumuseum.org to inquire.
Online Professional Development
Includes the following:
- A live, online workshop from the Museum with NCMA Education Staff
- K-16 educators and administrators explore how the Museum and works of art can serve as a resource for teaching
- Workshops are object/art centered; inquiry based, and are designed to engage viewers in participatory experiences and to address NYS Learning and Common Core Standards
- 60 minute event
- 25 participants maximum
Fee: $500
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING LIVE STREAMED OPTIONS WHEN BOOKING AND LET US KNOW YOUR PREFERRED PLATFORM:
- MUSEUM LIVE! Explore works of art from the Museum’s current exhibition inside the gallery (Educator’s Guide included)
- SCULPTURE STROLL Visit a sculpture or two from the Museum Grounds.
- SOCIAL PRACTICE Use works of art on a virtual platform to explore current social issues.
- EMOTIONAL WELL BEING Use works of art to help create mindful opportunities for reflection.
Please contact Michelle Badzim – mbadzim@nassaumuseum.org to inquire.
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