More Related Content
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Featured
Featured (20)
TN Association of Museums Presentation: Special Education and Museums
- 1. Access for All: Museum Education Programs for Children with Special Needs By Katie Stringer TN Association of Museums March 21, 2013
- 2. Why create programs for children with special needs? To be a truly inclusive museum, you must offer equal opportunities for all Serve new audiences with meaningful programs OR Give your existing audience a better experience through educational programs Up your attendance number by reaching new audiences
- 3. Why historic sites and museums? The opportunity to: Create connections with historic people and the past through: 1. Artifacts 2. Structures 3. Stories of real people
- 4. What do SPED teachers want? Results from nation-wide survey Museums = 59% of Where students go on field trips current field trips Aquarium 3% 15% do not go on Science Museums Art Museums field trips 15% 12% Children's Museums 9% Parks 20% How many groups does YOUR museum Historical Sites 14% None of the see? Do you have programs for them? Above 15% History Museums Live Theater 9% 3%
- 5. What Do SPED Teachers Want, cont. Desired learning experiences from field trip Experiences equal Social, education Non-Educational to other classes Skills 3% Behavior al, and life skills How can 3% 5% Enjoyment 5% museums offer Social Skills 28% Life and Social Educational Skills skills? Does your 28% Life Skills 28% museum offer opportunities for students to gain these skills?
- 6. What Do SPED Teachers Want, cont. Educator preferences for museum programs Hands-on and Tactile Entertaining / With Mainstream Educational Edutainment Students Content 16% 19% Educational Tactile 15% Entertaining With Mainstream 17% Physical 8% Hands-On students 21% Individual 4%
- 7. What are other museums doing? The Transit Museum The Jewish Museum Lower East-Side Tenement Museum
- 8. Transit Museum Access Programs Autism Workshops Life-Skills and Tactile
- 9. The Jewish Museum Summer Camps Sunday Workshops School Tours Touch Tours
- 10. The Lower East-Side Tenement Museum Talking Tactile Tablet Autism Tours Shop Life Touch Tours
- 11. What YOU Can Do: Best Practices StaffTraining Communication Safe Environment Time limits Engagement Structure AND Flexibility Adaptation HAVE FUN!