My annual invitation to the NYSHA Teachers' Advisory meeting in Cooperstown is always a welcome one. The advisory team is made up of a range of educators from across the state: history and art teachers, elementary and high school teachers, humanities advocates, and librarians! It is hosted by the very professional staff at NYSHA; and that is a treat. Their organization is proactive, proud, and concerned with anticipating teacher needs as our expectations flex and evolve.
The discussion revolved around how our schools are responding to the Common Core initiative, how the museums' educational programs might accommodate those changes, and specific strategies they might explore to provide truly rich educational experiences.
As always, the dialogue was rich with ideas that we might adopt also. Two ideas in particular seemed transferable to ACS: posting "essential questions" throughout the school to focus and cultivate a climate of inquiry, and teaming triumvirates of History-ELA-Arts teachers to encounter-explore-explain artworks (or any DBQ-type resource) for empowered understanding and responses.
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