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Volunteer Fair Description: Heritage Museums & Gardens is hosting a Volunteer Fair on Saturday, March 12, from 10 am-1 pm in the Heald Center at Heritage. Volunteer opportunities are available in many departments, including education, administration, horticulture, and more. Volunteers are part of a unique …
Today’s “What We’re Reading” post comes to you from Ingrid Neuman, Tufts professor of the course Collections Care and Preservation and Conservator at the RISD Museum “The Custodians: How the Whitney is transforming the art of museum conservation”, The New Yorker, January 11, 2016 This article by …
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Tuesday, March 1, 6:00 pm Destroying Images: Current Iconoclasm in Context James Simpson, Chair, Department of English and Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University The destruction of iconic images and monuments—iconoclasm—carried out today by extremists representing a wide range of …
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Today’s “What We’re Reading” post comes to you from Cynthia Robinson, director of the Tufts Museum Studies program.
Many museums conduct professional development workshops for classroom teachers, but until now, most developed their own agendas, with little more than tradition to guide them. Recently, Alfredo Bautista, a former Tufts post-doctoral associate and now Research Scientist and Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University’s National Institute of Education (Singapore), has pulled together a compilation of studies from across the world that summarize the best practices from a variety of countries. Among their findings are that professional development is most effective when teachers are able to engage in active, collaborative learning with opportunities to reflect and experiment, and when the professional development extends over time, rather than existing as a one shot deal.
Read Alfredo’s article, “Teacher Professional Development: International Perspectives and Approaches,” in the open-access journal Psychology, Society & Education. vol. 7(3).