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[teacherartexchange] The Art of Teaching in the Museum

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From: Woody Duncan (woodyduncan_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 18:41:53 PST

My first class at UNM started today. I put this comment on my blog
today.

I'm quite impressed with my first class meeting of "The Art of
Teaching in a Museum". I've selected a good course. It's a very
diverse group of students, with varied backgrounds and ages, four are
males, two are Native-Americans, etc, etc. It's organized as a very
inner-active class. We do reflective journaling every week.
Reflection is so important to growth - I just hope it's OK to
illustrate my journal. Aside from reading and discussing theoretical
ideas we will be planning and testing out our ideas with groups of
real museum visitors of various age groups. The UNM Art Museum has an
upcoming exhibit on New Deal Art in New Mexico. This will provide us
our laboratory to experiment in. Our two instructors will recruit
groups of museum visitors of various ages for us to try out our ideas
on.

                                                                Woody

If anyone can suggest resources for using the museum experience for
teaching, it would be appreciated.

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