Educators Event | “Learning Through Art” Summer Institute | Elementary Teachers
June 12, 13 & 14, 2024
11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Want engaging strategies, resources, and materials that can be easily and immediately implemented in your classroom to create empowered learners? Come join us to “fill your teaching toolkit” using works of art from the MFAH collections and hands-on projects to enhance your TEKS and STAAR-aligned lessons, creating a more engaging and collaborative learning environment. Explore personalized learning strategies, integrate technology, and delve into nano learning for bite-sized impactful learning ideas. Elevate engagement and motivation to promote higher order thinking skills through strategies based on holistic learning approaches, ELL-based techniques, literacy development, SEL, mindfulness, STREAM ideas, and gamification.
This program features G/T CPE credit, free MFAH admission passes, lesson plan ideas, gallery tours, materials, shop discounts, and more.
Tickets
- $100 includes materials, parking, lunch, and Museum admission.
- All MFAH educator programs offer digital educational frameworks and motivational techniques that foster diverse learners’ engagement; G/T CPE credit; and curriculum resources.
Plan Your Visit
- Meet in the McNair Education Court on the lower level of the Kinder Building.
- Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map
Questions? Please email teachers@mfah.org for information on how to register.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the John M. O'Quinn Foundation; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.