Professional Development for Teachers

Open Enrollment Workshops
Professional Development Packages for Schools

The museum offers dynamic professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers of all levels and subjects. Explore the role of object-based learning in the 21st Century, consider the intersections of museum engagement strategies and classroom teaching, and discover the arts and sacred traditions of Himalayan Asia alongside the Rubin's dedicated team of museum educators.

Programs incorporate unique guided tours, hands-on activities in our state-of-the-art Education Center, and curriculum development sessions to consider strategies for connecting with the museum’s resources, methodologies, and exhibitions.  

Open-Enrollment Workshops

Take the lead in your own professional development! Sign up individually or with a fellow teacher. These workshops engage teachers in inquiry-based museum experiences, allow time for personal engagement with art-making, encourage participants to reflect on their own teaching practice, and help refine transferable skills that can be applied in the classroom.

Next scheduled Open-Enrollment Workshop:

NEW OFFERING!
Mountains, Minerals and Materials
August 21, 2013
2:00-5:00 p.m.

Discover unexpected new intersections between the museum and your classroom.  In this 3-hour workshop, we will make connections between Himalayan geography, natural resources, and art materials through close observation and discussion in the galleries. Then, we will create personal works of art using genuine Himalayan materials, techniques, and processes during an exciting hands-on experience.  Be inspired with new ideas for the 2013-2014 school year! 

Program includes:

• Special interactive gallery tours
• Hands-on art-making with genuine materials and techniques
• Discussion about connecting the Rubin Museum to the classroom curriculum
• Takeaways for the classroom
• Complimentary museum passes for participants
• Please note: This workshop will not provide P-credits.

$25 per person, all materials included. Advance registration is required, and payment must be received by the start of program.

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Stay after for Himalayan Happy Hour and a special lecture, What Can We Learn from the Contents of Buddhist Statues? by James Robson as part of a lecture series Exporting Enlightenment.

For more information call, please call (212) 620-5000 x 359 or email education@rmanyc.org.

Professional Development Packages for Schools

The Rubin Museum of Art has a lot to offer principals and administrators interested in helping teachers build teamwork, curriculum, and engagement. Schedule a professional development workshop for a team of educators! Choose from the following themes, or work with us to design your own:

Fostering Curiosity with the Art of Himalayan Asia
Explore various museum education engagement strategies and see inquiry, storytelling, art-making, and movement can help both students and teachers engage with art and support classroom curriculum.

Artifact Investigations
Handle authentic objects from the Himalayas and explore how artifacts as well as everyday objects can support and enhance classroom teaching.

Mindfulness in Education
Consider the role of mindfulness in learning, and use the Rubin Museum’s collection to find new ways to be more mindful in your own teaching practice.

Storytelling in Himalayan Art
Delve into the stories depicted in Himalayan art and discover how storytelling can help students learn about and make connections to content.

Mandalas and Math
Learn more about these mathematical Buddhist images and how you can use Himalayan art and art-making to support teaching mathematical concepts.

Cultural Diffusion and the Silk Road: Tracing the Spread of Buddhism
Explore the spread of ideas and how the belief system that we now know as Buddhism came to be.

Materials and Techniques
Make connections between Himalayan geography, natural resources, and art materials through close observation and discussion in the galleries and art-making.

Geography and Himalayan Art
Unearth the connections between the tallest mountains on the planet and the art of central Asia by looking at how landscape and geography are depicted in the Rubin Museum collection. 

Professional Development Packages can take place at the Rubin Museum of Art or at your school, and include:

• $500 for a 3-hour session
• Introduction to Himalayan art and geography
• Special interactive gallery tours (at museum only)
• Hands-on art-making activity
• Integrated curriculum strategies
• Educator resources for the classroom
• Complimentary museum passes for participants

For more information call (212) 620-5000 x359 or email education@rmanyc.org.