Teachers Professional Development Workshops
Join your colleagues and curriculum experts to learn new tips and techniques to enhance your professional skills and improve classroom learning. Our workshops are affordable and conveniently scheduled on Thursday evenings or Saturday during the day.
The New Jersey State Museum is a registered Professional Development Provider for the New Jersey Department of Education Professional Standards Board (#2241); Teachers' Professional Development Courses fulfill the requirements for continued certification on a credit/hour basis. Certificates will also be provided to teachers from Pennsylvania & Delaware.
Advance registration is required. For reservations and more information call (609) 292-6310.
REMEMBER 9.11
Reflections and Memories from New Jersey
On view September 8, 2011 through September 30, 2012
On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as terrorists used commercial airplanes as weapons against the United States, killing 2,979 people, destroying the World Trade Center, and damaging the Pentagon in their brutal coordinated attack. On that fateful day, nearly 700 New Jerseyans - the second highest casualty toll after New York - perished at the World Trade Center (WTC), Pentagon, and aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 2011, the New Jersey State Museum will commemorate the ten-year anniversary of September 11 with a major exhibition, Remember 9.11 Reflections and Memories from New Jersey, which explores the impact of the terrorist attacks on the people of the Garden State. The exhibit will revolve around New Jersey's reflections and responses to 9/11 and will include artifacts conveying the human dimension and enormity of the attacks complete with oral histories of 9/11 families, survivors, rescue workers and volunteers.
The opening of Remember 9.11 will coincide with the beginning of the new school year. In connection with that, the museum will offer several new educational programs throughout the academic year to help teachers educate their students about 9-11.
Arts for Learning Lessons: An Arts-Based Approach to Literacy
June 14, 2012 - Museum Learning Center, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm - $5 per person
NEW PROGRAM - Arts for Learning Lessons is a nationally designed and scientifically tested series of "Lesson Units" - classroom-ready materials and references which target crucial points in the language arts curriculum. Dance, music, theater, and visual arts help students learn by making abstract literacy concepts concrete through the use of images, sounds, movement, language, body, and voice. Skills reinforced through the curriculum include: understanding character, perspective, making inferences, summarizing, and determining importance. Work from the Museum's exhibition American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection will be used while exploring the lesson plans.
Grades: 4-12. NJSM is a registered Professional Development Provider #2241 for the New Jersey Department of Education Professional Standards Board. Teachers' Professional Development Courses fulfill the requirements for continued certification.
