Interdisciplinary Teaching with Museum Objects
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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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Candra Flanagan
Candra Flanagan is the staff lead for the Teaching and Learning unit of the Education Department at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this current role she oversees the development of programming and resources to assist educators in incorporating African American history in their classroom; researches and creates educational publications for use by the general public and educators; and strategizes the role of NMAAHC in the professional development of educators. Candra is dedicated to establishing research-based, audience-appropriate K-12 initiatives for educators and students. With a degree in History from the University of Maryland College Park, a degree in Social Foundations of Education and advanced coursework Educational Policy from the University of Virginia, she is passionate about the intersection between formal and informal learning as well as cultivating and encouraging life-long learning in educators.
Abby Pfisterer
Abby Pfisterer is the Education Specialist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She leads the development of resources and programs that use history to foster civic learning and engagement among K-12 students nationwide. She has over ten years of experience working in formal classroom and informal learning settings at museums and historic sites, focusing on progressive education and audience-driven program development. Ms. Pfisterer holds degrees in History, Political Science and Education from Colorado State University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts. She has also held secondary social studies education licensure, teaching in middle and high school social studies classrooms in Greeley and Fort Collins, Colorado.
Dr. Orlando Serrano
Orlando Serrano manages the National Museum of American History’s educational programs for young people and educators. He supports and develops informal educational and leadership experiences for students, professional development workshops for educators, and curriculum content. Dr. Serrano is an experienced educator with expertise in teacher professional development, assessment, instruction, and educational technologies. Dr. Serrano’s research and writing have been funded by a Ford Foundation Fellowship as well as National Science Foundation and NSF EDGE-SBE Grants.
Ashleigh D. Coren
Ashleigh D. Coren is the Women’s History Content and Interpretation Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and is also an adjunct lecturer for the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. She holds a BA in Art and Visual Culture from Bates College, and an MS in Archives Management from Simmons College.
Briana Zavadil White
Briana Zavadil White oversees the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s education programs, which serves the museum’s access, teen, youth and family, and student and teacher audiences. Inquiry and object-based learning provide the foundation for education programs at the museum. The Portrait Gallery’s programs, gallery experiences, and workshops start with the premise that by reading portraiture, visitors can springboard into rich conversations about biography, history, and art. By modeling learning to look strategies, unique ways to engage in portraiture, the education team hopes visitors will slow down and look closely in order to spark meaning making. Briana holds a B.A. in psychology, with a minor in art history, from the University of Virginia and a M.A.T. with a concentration in museum education from George Washington University.
Elizabeth Dale-Deines
Elizabeth Dale-Deines is Teacher Programs Coordinator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Since 2014, she has taught DC-area educators and students how to engage with artworks as rich texts and provocation of deeper inquiry. She has presented at regional and national conferences on interdisciplinary education and has collaborated closely with a local research project of Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero. Elizabeth served as American Art’s Distance Learning Coordinator between 2010 and 2014, bringing the Museum’s collection to lifelong learners in the States and dependents of American military personnel around the world via videoconference. Elizabeth has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Virginia and an M.A.T. in museum education from the George Washington University.
Phoebe Hillemann
Phoebe Hillemann is the Teacher Institutes Educator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She manages the Museum’s annual week-long summer teacher institutes, focused on integrating art across the curriculum to bolster critical thinking and content learning. Her work also involves delivering live, interactive webinars for teachers, presenting at national and regional education conferences, and inquiry-based teaching in the Museum’s galleries with students and teachers. Phoebe has a B.A. in art history from Kenyon College, and an M.S. Ed. in Leadership in Museum Education from Bank Street Graduate School of Education.
Tess Porter
Tess Porter is the Digital Content Producer at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, where she focuses on the use of digital museum resources to deepen learning. Her work on the Smithsonian Learning Lab, an online platform for the creative and educational use of millions of museum resources, involves the research and creation of interactive learning experiences on history, art, and culture for projects both within the Smithsonian and in collaboration with other institutions, and the training of educators and others on how to create their own customized content on the Lab.
Dr. Philippa Rappoport
Philippa Rappoport is the Lead for Education and Engagement at the Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology, the office behind the award-winning Smithsonian Learning Lab. Her work focuses on developing and producing outputs that foster deep learning and contribute knowledge to improve practices in museum and preK-16 education and engagement, including platform support and enhancement, teacher professional development, public engagement programming, and digital assets creation for schools, families, and English Language learners. She is the Smithsonian’s liaison for Montgomery College’s Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship Program. Philippa has a Ph.D in Slavic Folklore and Linguistics and teaches Russian Culture at George Washington University.