Sharon Vatsky

Interactive Museum Tours (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to In-Person and Virtual Experiences

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This easy-to-follow yet comprehensive book provides everything an educator working in a school or museum, in person or online, needs to develop experiences that encourage close looking, spark the imagination, and support the development of critical thinking skills. Sharon Vatsky looks at the entire tour experience including planning, facilitation, and reflection. By providing a flexible tour-planning template - jointly developed by the education departments of the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, this book clearly articulates strategies and advice for the educator who wants to facilitate inquiries that encourage participants to think together and think deeply. To demonstrate the flexibility and adaptability of the tour planning template, museum educators with deep experience specializing in working with diverse audiences share how they adjust the tour planning template to accommodate the attributes and strengths of the visitors they work with most closely. These accommodations to the template include ways to support family learning, school tours, virtual tours, promote social and emotional learning, work effectively with students with autism, adults with low vision and blindness and adults with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. These contributions are included to demonstrate that the tour planning template can be adjusted to support the varied abilities and learning styles of multiple audiences. Features include: An insider's guide to tour planning featuring advice and strategies from museum educators across the U.S. A tested tour planning template that is adaptable and flexible for multiple audiencesHow to identify tour themes that work... and those that don'tWhat makes for effective object selection and sequencingHow to encourage and facilitate productive discussionsInserting the right factual and contextual information at the right timeMulti-modal activities for in-person and online participationAdapting your tour plans for varied audiences, including families, school groups, virtual groups and more...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538167427
• Artikelnr.: 67806967

Autorenporträt

Sharon Vatsky is a lifelong educator. Her career in museum education includes a decade as Curator of Education at the Queens Museum and more than twenty years at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, most recently as Director of Visitor Engagement. Sharon brings her experience as a lifelong art educator and museum educator to facilitating gallery and virtual experiences for varied audiences. She has conducted workshops for teachers and museum educators at universities and art museums in the U.S. and internationally and taught graduate level courses in Museum Education at the City University of New York, Teachers College, Columbia University and New York University's Graduate Program in Museum Studies as well as undergraduate courses in drawing, painting, design and art history and arts education. Her first book, Museum Gallery Activities: A Handbook was published in 2018 by Roman and Littlefield.