Sample Agenda
CALTA21 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Hosted by [museum] [dates]
Day 1 – 10:00am – 3:00pm
10:00 am Registration and Pre-Institute Survey
10:10 am Welcome and Introductions
10:30 am Getting to Know the Adult English Language Learner (ELLs)
Activities:
- Acronyms
- Perceptions of ELLs and Immigrants (what I think…/what I have heard from others…)
- Strengths
- Needs and wants
11:00 am CALTA21 Model and Guiding Principles
Activity:
- Describe a meaningful museum experience
12:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm Deconstructing the Curriculum
- Theme
- Activities:
VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES (VTS) FACILITATED DISCUSSION Gallery
- Amy Chase Gulden, VTS Regional Director will facilitate a VTS discussion
1:30 pm DEMONSTRATION AND ANALYSIS OF VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES (VTS) Learning Center
- Attendees deconstruct the VTS methodology
- VTS theoretical framework
- Video: Adult English language learners and their families participate in a VTS discussion facilitated by a museum docent
2:15 pm PRACTICING VTS IN THE GALLERIES IN SMALL GROUPS
3:30 pm DEBRIEF & ANALYSIS OF THE DAY’S SESSION – Q&A Sculpture Garden
- THINKING POINTS: How do the CALTA21 curriculum and the use of VTS apply to teaching adult English Language Learners at the museum and in the classroom? Describe VTS to someone unfamiliar with it and explain what you learned.
CALTA21 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (Day 2)
Hosted by the Katonah Museum of Art
SITE: The Louis-Dreyfus Family Foundation
September 30 and October 1, 2013
October 1: 10:00am – 1:00pm
10:00 am WELCOME – LOUIS-DREYFUS FAMILY FOUNDATION
10:15 am PRACTICING VTS
- Large group VTS discussion
- Participants practice VTS
12:00 pm CALTA21 and the ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (ELLs)
- VTS applications to ELLs
- Academic, cultural, social capital for civic engagement and intercultural dialogue
12:45 pm CLOSING REMARKS AND POST INSTITUTE SURVEY
October 1: 1-2 pm
1-2 WHAT’S NEXT: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS – CALTA21 curriculum implementation and museum trip logistics
Steps towards building a collaboration that mutually benefits the museum, higher education institutions, community-based organizations and the adult students and their families