Join instructor Helen Wong Smith beginning September 5, 2022 for the four week course Cultural Competency.
Everyone believes they work well with cultures unlike their own and are aware of the benefits of intercultural or Cultural Competency (CC) practice. How you define and incorporate cultural competency in your museum requires the ability to function with awareness, knowledge, and interpersonal skill when engaging people of different backgrounds, assumptions, beliefs, values, and behaviors.
In this workshop you’ll be challenged to examine personal perceptions that might surprise you and strategies that will increase your ability to practice inclusion to your stakeholders including staff, donors, visitors, and communities.
This workshop provides the skills to employ cultural competency and the stages individuals and organizations can implement to improve relations with internal and external communities.
Join us beginning May 1, 2023 for the four week course Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums.
This course is designed to teach museum educators how to develop and write formal lesson plans for K-12 programming.
Join Instructor Tara Young for this 4 week online professional development course.
Each week’s lecture, chat, and assignment will be iterative, and students will end the course with a finished lesson plan that they can put into use at their museums.
Join us beginning September 4, 2023 us for the four week course Moving Museum Collections.
Moving Museum Collections provides a how-to for planning and managing a collection move to avoid the many pitfalls associated with a move project. The course will help you clarify your project, develop a work plan, prepare a communication scheme, define proposals for vendors, organize staffing and establish packing protocols.
Join us beginning November 6, 2023 for Preserving Heritage Collections, a foundation course for collection care. If you are not already familiar with preservation principles you should take this course before taking any other collection care subject. These principles are also applied in Facilities Management courses ranging from Integrated Pest Management to Keeping Historic Houses & Museums Clean to Emergency Preparedness.
This course will look at specific every day examples of risks to collections and how to strategize solutions to those challenges.