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K Palich
Spring 2014 Part-Time Education Position
Sandy Spring Museum
17901 Bentley Road
Sandy Spring, Maryland 20860
(301) 774-0022
http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org <http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/>
Museum Education and Public Programming Staff
Positions available: 2
Duration: January 15, 2014-June 2014
Stipend: $1,500 stipend
Hours: 15-20 hours a week; days and hours vary
Supervisor: Kelly Palich, Education and Outreach Coordinator
About Sandy Spring Museum:
"The Sandy Spring Museum provides a place where people can develop
meaningful connections by exploring community history through the
visual, literary and performing arts."
Sandy Spring Museum, founded in 1980, is a community-based history
museum interpreting a unique rural Maryland community. Founded by
Quakers in the 1720s, Sandy Spring became the center of a network of
rural farming villages. Originally slave owners and tobacco planters,
Sandy Spring Quakers embraced abolition in the late 18th century, freed
enslaved people between 1780 and 1815, and broke up the plantations into
family farms, many of which went to newly-free African-Americans.
The turn away from slavery and tobacco spurred innovations in
agricultural methods, commerce, civic life, and business, and a
thriving, progressive, bi-racial community of farmers and rural villages
that lasted into the second half of the 20th century. Since 1970, the
community has become a suburban bedroom settlement serving both
Baltimore and Washington, DC, but a great deal remains of the rural
past, both in the built environment and in living memory. Resources of
oral history and material artifacts, working farms, and the continuing
multi-racial community, remain to anchor and support both of these
projects. Research resources are also plentiful in the Museum archives
and existing exhibits and displays.
The museum's new strategic vision entails opening its historic
collection to interpretation by cultural artists - visual, literary and
performing - who will use the collection in the creation of new works of
art; and addressing the rapidly diversifying community by broadening its
concept of history to include the stories of all of the people who live
in the Sandy Spring neighborhood, those whose ancestry dates back
generations and those who have moved to the area more recently
Job Description:
Museum education staff will be responsible for the following:
1) Museum Exploration Days: Staff will collaborate with the
Education Coordinator to help plan and run three museum exploration
days: January 20, February 17 and March 28, 2014. These days are open
to children grades K-8 on days off of school. Pre-program tasks will
include researching new games, crafts, activities and helping to create
a schedule, preparing supplies and learning the history of the Sandy
spring area. During the program, staff will work one-on-one with
campers and have the opportunity to run activities and games. The
programs will run from 8:30-4:30pm on scheduled days.
2) Spring Break Camps: The staff will collaborate with the
Education Director to help plan the Museum's Hands-on-History Camp
(March 24-28; April 14-18 2014). Pre-camp tasks include researching new
games/crafts/activities, helping create a schedule, preparing supplies,
and learning the history of the area. Staff will help create marketing
materials for camps and distribute and recruit registrants.
3) School Programs and Outreach: Staff will work with the Education
Coordinator to help run scheduled field trips during the month of
January. Staff will help launch new program, Reinventing the Wheel,
which incorporates both History and STEM Common Core practices.
Fieldtrips include both on-site museum tours and in-classroom outreach
programs. Staff will also help Education Coordinator recruit and train
education volunteers at a Saturday Training Workshop.
4) Social Media/Blogging: Staff will brainstorm unique ways to
expand our museum audiences through social media - how do we educate
digitally? Staff will research our collections, programming and events
and develop creative ways to spread the word through facebook, twitter,
tumblr and blogging.
Product: As a final product, part time staff will produce a portfolio
for each program/camp they develop, containing written descriptions of
each program, including clear curriculum goals (if applicable),
lesson/activity plans, and specific museum collections items appropriate
to the programs. In addition, all documents should be saved and
organized electronically. Staff should also include a weekly journal or
log recording completed tasks, lessons learned, challenges faced, and
reflection on museum education in a community setting.
Please submit resume and cover letter to:
Kelly Palich
Education and Outreach Coordinator
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Kelly M. Palich
Education Outreach Coordinator
Sandy Spring Museum
17901 Bentley Road
Sandy Spring, MD 20860
(301) 774-0022 ext. 107
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