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Lesson Plan: Museum Education

1. Museum Education: how it fits in the broader museum mission
   1. History recap:
      • "treasure houses" to Excellency and Equity
      • staff change: translators of content/"running interference with the public" to key team participants from planning to evaluation
   2. Museum communication models (see overheads)
      • transmitters of information
      • creating spaces for meaning making
2. Education theory for museums
   1. Learning domains (cognitive, affective, motor)
   2. Learning types: how information is perceived and processed
   3. Gardiner and multiple intelligences
3. Learning theory in museum context
   1. Object-based learning (see overheads)
   2. Exhibit learning (flow, stay time, evaluation of learning outcomes)
4. Planning for museum learning
   1. Policy (see overhead)
   2. Goals, objectives, strategies
   3. ACTIVITY:
      • in pairs, students read and critique a sample museum education activity
      • each student presents to his or her partner their concept for their museum program (as part of their exhibit project) and they comment on/ critique each other's goals, objectives, and strategies
5. Exhibit labels as education tools
   1. solicit success and failure examples from class
   2. give overview of label types, typographic basics, writing basic (ref. Serrell reading)
   3. ACTIVITY:
      • each student presents an introductory text and an object label from their exhibit to their partner and each critique the other's work

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