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Home | Education | K-12 | Teachers | Adult & Community Education K-12
Teachers
In 2005 educational materials will be put on-line to allow access for educational purposes. Additionally, a special pilot project, Image and Word, will develop interdisciplinary curriculum in the arts and sciences at the secondary school level, to integrate the museum's collection with “core curriculum” themes. Adult & Community Education Programs at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum are open to the public and designed to address the widest public audience possible. Weekly docent tours, exhibition gallery talks by curators and artists, lectures by noted scholars and writers in their fields, literary readings, film series and opening receptions, and other special events serve the adult and senior communities of Queens and the surrounding areas of New York and Long Island. As a public institution, the Museum strives to create exhibitions that reflect community interests. If you have any suggestions for exhibitions related to your community, please send us your ideas. Some previous exhibitions we have organized along these lines include Memory and History and The Light of Infinite Wisdom: Asian Art from the Godwin-Ternbach Museum and Other Collections. Private tours on a no-fee or low-fee basis are offered to senior centers, women’s clubs, academic and community associations, alumni, QC adult education classes, and many others, as part of the Museum’s mission to provide educational and cultural opportunities for all. |
The
Godwin-Ternbach Museum has an active education program in collaboration
with the Queens College
Division of Education, which includes Art Education, Secondary
Education and Youth Services, and Elementary & Early
Childhood Education. Queens College’s Division of Education
is one of the top three institutions in New York State for
training
of New York City teachers. Partnerships with local schools
such as PS 499 and Townsend-Harris High School, located adjacent
to the Queens
College campus, have made the Museum a vital center for
art, cultural, and interdisciplinary education. Through a
special
relationship with the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts
in Education, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum has welcomed teachers
and students from schools throughout Queens, Long
Island, and Manhattan, from Early Childhood through
high-school level classes.
Together
with the Division of Education, the Museum offers teacher workshops
led by award-winning education
professors and teachers currently enrolled in the Graduate
Education program. These workshops utilize manuals specially-designed
for each exhibition that include curriculum materials
with study and activity guides, printed images, and slides
or CD-ROMs for in-school and museum use. In the past
two years, since the inception of this program, over 100 teachers
have
attended these training workshops and hundreds of students
have visited the Museum for interactive tours and activities.