Jay Rounds is the recently retired founding director of the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at the University of Missouri St Louis. He is also an anthropologist and a former museum practitioner, notably serving as Chief Curator of the California Museum of Science and Industry, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Conservancy, and Executive DirectorContinue reading “Schools and Museums: Interview with Jay Rounds”
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Field Trips to Museums Are Great But…
This post is re-blogged from The Teacher In The Museum, which “is written to help museum educators better understand how to design learning experiences for the 21st Century student.” The author of the post is Steve Gillis, President & Chief Learning Officer at Net Learning Solutions Inc. and a Social Studies teacher who “helps to bringContinue reading “Field Trips to Museums Are Great But…”
Fieldtrips and the Small Historic Site
This is the second guest post in the Schools and Museum series on Museum Questions. It is from Elisabeth Nevins, a museum education consultant located in New England. Elisabeth’s firm, Seed Education Consulting, develops educational programming and content for museums and historic sites, and, in her own words, “is driven by the possibilities of exploringContinue reading “Fieldtrips and the Small Historic Site”
Museum Educators’ Unrealized Potential
This post, by Gretchen Jennings, is reblogged from Museum Commons. Thanks to Gretchen for allowing me to share this. The museum blogosphere in the past few weeks has been filled with postings related to the work of museum educators and the role of museums as educational institutions. Rebecca Herz has posted a number of articles andContinue reading “Museum Educators’ Unrealized Potential”
Schools and Museums: Interview with Brian Smith
Brian Smith blogs for Scholastic; you can read his posts here. Brian also teaches in the education department at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina. He serves as Vice President of the North Carolina branch of the International Dyslexia Association, treasurer for the Catawba Valley Chapter of the Autism Society of North Carolina, and serves asContinue reading “Schools and Museums: Interview with Brian Smith”
Field Trips that Teach Thinking Skills
A number of people have reached out to me to share ways in which they, too, are exploring new approaches to school visits to museums. Some of them have generously agreed to write guest posts to share their ideas. The first of these guest posts is from Claire Bown, a freelance museum educator based inContinue reading “Field Trips that Teach Thinking Skills”
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