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These workshops provide new insight and perspective on specific subjects and offer new educational resources and tools for educators. The workshops focus on the arts, science, history and character education. The museum is a registered Professional Development provider. A certificate of completion is provided to all participants.
Professional Development Workshops take place on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. Pre-registration is required for each workshop. Program prices include resource materials, classroom activities and a light supper or lunch. Payment is required at the time of registration.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Dr. Steve Okulewicz,
Professor of Geology at the College of Staten Island and Hofstra University
This workshop will emphasize a hands-on approach to the identification of common rocks and minerals using a variety of hand-specimens, brief PowerPoint presentations, a demonstration of various physical tests and visual observations. Minerals will be defined and their physical properties explained using mineral specimens. Special “magical” demonstrations will accompany
these topics and be scattered throughout the presentation.
Science Standards 5.8, 5.10; Social Studies Standard 6.4
Thursday, December 10, 2009
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: James Frankel, Ed.D;
Managing Director of Soundtree, clinician and consultant
This workshop introduces the concepts behind Podcasting - from creating podcasts to publishing them on iTunes. Participants will learn how to
create podcasts using GarageBand, including how to incorporate video into a podcast. Publishing the podcasts via free podcast hosting websites
will be covered as well. In addition, participants will learn about other podcasting resources including ProfCast, getting your podcast onto iTunes, iTunesU and creating an RSS feed for subscriptions.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.4;
Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.2, 3.3, 3.5; Science Standard 5.2; Technological Literacy Standards 8.1, 8.2
Thursday, January 21, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Paul Ellis-Graham, American History & Government teacher at Monroe- Woodbury High School; Executive Committee member of the Lincoln Group of New York
Educators will examine both the personal and professional aspects of Lincoln’s
life in an attempt to separate fact from fiction and to explain why Lincoln has become such an American icon. The workshop will include an introduction to both primary and secondary sources, and will also examine how Lincoln is
portrayed through current feature films and documentaries. Several lesson plans and classroom resources will be discussed and shared with participants.
Social Studies Standards 6.2 – 6.5
Thursday, January 28, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Jenny Rebecca Martin,
Registrar, Bureaus of Fine Art and Cultural History at the New Jersey State Museum
Typically, the word “art” evokes images in one’s mind of the Great Masters, portraits of solemn-looking gentlemen, heavily-bedecked ladies, soup cans or
serene, lush pastures. This is all well and good, but there is great artistic talent and technical skill to be found outside the likes of Rembrandt and Pollack! This workshop will look beyond the traditional concept of artistic capability as commonly understood and examine the roots of artistic expression. Participants
will examine the world around them – past, present and future – with a fresh eye for the art that has surrounded us from the dawn of human civilization.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.4, 1.5;
Social Studies Standards 6.3, 6.4
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Dr. Richard Greenwald,
Dean of Caspersen School of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at Drew University
How have our communities changed over time? How does the environment shape human experience? How do people adapt to their surroundings? What makes a community? This workshop will look at how New Jersey’s
communities have changed in the 20th century. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of community and local history, within the larger social transformations affecting the United States. Special attention will be paid to issues of ethnicity, race, immigration, urban/suburban development,
consumerism, and what holds the state together - its people. Suggested classroom resources will be provided for teachers.
Visual and Performing Arts Standard 1.5;
Social Studies Standards 6.2 – 6.6
Thursday, March 4, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Vernoy Paolini, School Wide Enrichment teacher for Lounsberry Hollow Middle School; Vice President of the Council of Holocaust Educators; President of Diversity Council of Kean University
This workshop contains strategies, ideas, and activities that can be customized to a specific age and population to raise awareness of prejudices and discriminatory behavior. It demonstrates the progression from behavior associated with bullies to the similarities evident during genocides, including the Holocaust. Strategies will be provided for use in the classroom to educate any grade level.
Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 – 3.5; Science Standard 5.2;
Social Studies Standards 6.1 – 6.3, 6.6; Technological Literacy Standard 8.1
Thursday, March 11, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Eric Hafen, Artistic Director
of the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum
Experiment with a variety of theatre games and exercises that will help create an innovative classroom environment. This workshop focuses on activities designed to enhance the creative thought process and creative expression of
students. Teachers will learn practical exercises in movement, visual and audio awareness, as well as methodology to stimulate the imagination of their students. These exercises may be applied to any academic subject and grade level.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.2, 1.3, 1.5;
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standard 2.5
Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenters: Heather Gilliland, LDT-C, Assistant Principal at P.G. Chambers School, and a Speech and Language Pathologist, a Physical Therapist and an Occupational Therapist from the P.G. Chambers School
This interactive workshop will provide educators with easy to use movement strategies that will foster smooth transitions, alert or relax students, and increase daily readiness for learning. Applications for classroom behavior, attention, language, body awareness and motor skills will be emphasized. Each presenter will share insights from his/her discipline as well as their strategies
for collaboration in Physical Education and the classroom.
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6
Thursday, April 29, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Judy Moonelis, Artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Participants will explore several hands-on exercises that demonstrate the use of a single process to achieve greatly varied results, from head modeling to abstract form. Basic considerations in sculpting the human head and a demonstration of hollow building a ceramic head using the pinching process will be included. Teachers will be provided with ideas for art projects for use in the classroom. Participants must bring 3-5 pounds of water based clay and are also welcome to bring their own clay modeling tools.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.3
Thursday, May 6, 2010
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Anne Drillick, Art teacher of Leonia School District and Professor of Art Education at Seton Hall University
Learn about steps you can take to provide an environmentally safe art room on a budget. This workshop includes information on creating an environmentally safe art room, a personal journaling activity inspired by folktales, a “chogakpo” paper collage (a Korean quilt art form) and an aromatherapy activity to create your own essential oil spray to take home. There is a $5 materials fee payable to the workshop presenter on the day of the program.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4,
1.5; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.2, 3.4, 3.5;
Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills Standard 9.2
Saturday, May 8, 2010
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Jenny Gaus-Myers, Superintendent of Environmental Education of Morris County Park Commission, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Have you ever wanted to take your students outdoors to do hands-on science in your schoolyard but have been afraid to try? This workshop was designed by the Morris County Park Commission’s environmental education staff to help you deal with just those issues. During this workshop, you will be exposed to a wide variety of simple, hands-on activities that relate directly to your science curriculum topics and make use of any schoolyard habitat, from urban to rural. Basic natural history background information and species identification will also be included. This workshop is most appropriate for grade levels Pre-K to 8, and includes curriculum materials to take home.
Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 - 3.4;
Science Standards 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 5.10; Social Studies Standard 6.6
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