The registration for AASLH’s Connecting Your Collections to Teachers and Students workshop scheduled for April 10-11 in Columbus, OH, is now open at http://resource.aaslh.org/view/connecting-your-collections-to-teachers-and-students-2/.  The workshop will be held at Ohio Historical Society. Register by March 10 and save $40 on your registration fee.

Through a combination of presentations, discussions, hands-on activities, and take-home materials, this workshop addresses the various elements of museum education and program planning needed to create an engaging, educational, and successful program with a focus on collections-based programming. topics include learning styles, presentation strategies, audience types, planning strategies and program assessment, using research, training staff, and crafting programming that is meaningful to the education community.

This workshop is presented in partnership with The Creative Learning Factory at the Ohio Historical Society.

Who Should Attend:
This workshop is ideally suited for staff (first-time museum educators, directors, tour guides or volunteer managers and mid-career professionals), museum studies students, or dedicated volunteers working in all types of museums  who are given the responsibility of education and public programming.

Cost: $230 members/$305 nonmembers if fee is received by March 10. $270 members/$345 nonmembers after March 10.

 

Early-Bird Registration Deadline is March 10. You can register today at http://resource.aaslh.org/view/connecting-your-collections-to-teachers-and-students-2/.

 

Please contact Bethany Hawkins, Program Manager at [log in to unmask] or 615-320-3203 if you have any questions about these or other upcoming workshops.

 

 

Bethany Hawkins

Program Manager

American Association for State and Local History

1717 Church St.

Nashville, TN 37203

615-320-3203

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