Spend some time volunteering in your local school system. Watch good teachers and learn (you can learn from the not so good ones too)! The more you interact with, speak with kids, the more you learn about how to communicate with them. Most schools will allow volunteers to come in and read with/to kids, help with classroom tasks, etc. I steal good ideas from my children's teachers and repurpose them for use in museum programming. 

Dollie Boyd
Manager of School Programs
Doak House Museum
Tusculum College
423-636-8554
1-800-729-0256 ext. 5251
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of K Popetz
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:46 PM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] museum educator development workshops?

Hi all-

Do any of you know of development opportunities for museum educators? What I'm looking for are workshops designed specifically to teach museum educators good teaching skills. I have a wonderful education staff, but everyone's agreed that they would love to attend a workshop or two to teach them a bit more about teaching since most learned on the job and feel that there are things they could do better/differently. Everything I've found thus far either teaches content or is a full blown semester long course through a college or university. Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help!

Kimberley Popetz
Director of Education
Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum
10515 Mackall Rd.
St. Leonard, MD 20685
410.586.8502
www.jefpat.org

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