2013-14+Teaching+History+With+Museums


 * __**SPRING 2014 SCHEDULE**__

__**Thursday, March 13, 2014 - Teaching History With Museums (at CREC)**__

Reading: Skramstad, H. (1999). “An Agenda for American Museums in the Twenty First Century,” Daedalus 128(3), 109.* Question to consider: How the roles of museums are changing and what does that mean for student learning at museums?

__**Saturday, March 22, 2014 -**__ __ **Artifact and Display Museums visit – Fairfield Museum** __

Reading: Marcus, Stoddard, & Woodward Chapter 3 Question to consider: What are some of the unique features, strengths, and challenges in visiting artifact & display museums? Please review Fairfield Museum website and consider the following:* If you have NOT visited the museum: Think about the museum you expect to see. What expectations for your visit does the website create? What does the website make you most interested in seeing? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?
 * If you have visited the museum: How does the website reflect your prior experience at the museum? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?

__**Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - Historic Homes visit – Stanley Whitman House**__ **<please note the date change**

Reading Marcus, Stoddard, & Woodward Chapter 6 Question to consider: What are some of the unique features, strengths, and challenges in visiting historic house museums? Please review Whitman House website and consider the following:
 * If you have NOT visited the museum: Think about the museum you expect to see. What expectations for your visit does the website create? What does the website make you most interested in seeing? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?
 * If you have visited the museum: How does the website reflect your prior experience at the museum? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?
 * For Walter & Alan
 * : [[file:TAH - April 23 agenda.docx]][[file:Eval 4.23.doc]][[file:TAH Sign-in Stanley Whitman House.xls]]

__**Thursday, May 1, 2014 - Museum Wrap-up Session - (at CREC)**__

=** __Thursday, May 15, 2014 - TAH Project Wrap-up Session - CT Historical Society__ **= ||  ||   ||  ||



__**FALL 2013 SCHEDULE**__

=** __Monday, September 23rd - Wrap-up of Leadership Strand – CREC Central__ **= Labor Leadership: Cases –Cesar Chavez, A Philip Randolph

Session Material: Reading: Marcus, Stoddard, & Woodward Chapters 1 & 2 Margaret Lindauer, “The Critical Museum Visitor,”
 * __Monday, October 21st - Teaching History with Museums – CREC Central__**
 * [[file:Museum of Me icebreaker.docx|Museum of Me Icebreaker]]
 * [[file:art for Oct session.pptx|Art Activity]]
 * Questions to consider:
 * If you had to convince your principal to let you take a history museum field trip what would you say?
 * What are some of the unique issues involved in learning history from museums?
 * How can museums be used to develop historical understanding?
 * Questions to consider:
 * What are the author’s main points about how to approach a museum visit?
 * Think about how these ideas apply to one of the museums we visited in Europe.

Reading: Marcus, Stoddard, & Woodward Chapter 7 Question to consider:What are some of the unique features, strengths, and challenges in visiting living history museums? Please review the Mystic Seaport website and consider the following:
 * __Monday, November 18th - Living history museum visit: Mystic Seaport__**
 * If you have NOT visited the museum: Think about the museum you expect to see. What expectations for your visit does the website create? What does the website make you most interested in seeing? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?
 * If you have visited the museum: How does the website reflect your prior experience at the museum? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?
 * If you have visited the museum: How does the website reflect your prior experience at the museum? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?

Reading: Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience by Rika Burnham and Elliott Kai-Kee (Excerpts) & Questions to consider:
 * __Thursday, February 6th - Art Museums visit: Wadsworth__**
 * What are some of the unique features, strengths, and challenges in visiting art museums and using them to learn about the past?
 * Please review of Wadsworth website and consider the following:
 * If you have NOT visited the museum: Think about the museum you expect to see. What expectations for your visit does the website create? What does the website make you most interested in seeing? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors?
 * If you have visited the museum: How does the website reflect your prior experience at the museum? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors? ||  ||
 * If you have visited the museum: How does the website reflect your prior experience at the museum? What clues does the website provide about how the museum uses history to educate visitors? ||  ||