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What you'll learn

  • Develop expertise in posing open-ended questions, encouraging students to look closely, think critically, and articulate their own insights.

  • Use inquiry-based art engagement to cultivate empathy, patience, and perspective-taking within your classroom community.

  • Understand the benefits of inquiry-based learning and its impact on students’ personal development and critical thinking skills.

  • Practice the qualities, formats, and instruction techniques that facilitate collective meaning making from a student’s perspective.

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This course is part of the Teaching with Art: Using Inquiry, Activities, and Themes Specialization
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There are 5 modules in this course

The most effective classrooms are not spaces for delivering answers, but laboratories for asking questions that facilitate collective meaning making. This course provides a framework for inquiry-based teaching—a student-centered methodology that uses art to spark deep critical thinking and collaborative dialogue. By using the strategies developed by leaders in the field of museum education, you will learn to facilitate a process of close looking and evidence-based reasoning that empowers your students to lead their own learning journeys.

Career Application: Whether you are a new teacher building your first lesson plan or a seasoned professional looking to reinvigorate your practice, this course equips you with the tools to turn modern and contemporary art into an accessible springboard for inquiry.

Welcome to Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom. This course will introduce ways to integrate works of art into your classroom by using inquiry-based teaching methods commonly used in museum settings. This course is designed to give you the tools to create meaningful object-based learning activities that can be integrated into a wide variety of curricula. The strategies this course covers emphasize literacy and critical thinking skills across disciplines.

What's included

2 videos8 readings1 assignment

2 videos•Total 7 minutes
  • Welcome to Art and Inquiry •4 minutes
  • Why Engage in Inquiry Around Art?•3 minutes
8 readings•Total 130 minutes
  • Welcome to the Course!•10 minutes
  • How to Start Using Inquiry, Art, and Social Emotional Learning•10 minutes
  • Lisa Mazzola's Top Five Tips for Teaching with Works of Art•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 1•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•60 minutes
  • Tips for Teaching Students with Disabilities•10 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
  • Are you a New York State educator?•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Introduction to Art & Inquiry•30 minutes

In this module you will explore different ways to facilitate close looking with your students by engaging in open-ended, inquiry-based conversation around works of art.

What's included

3 videos8 readings1 assignment

3 videos•Total 26 minutes
  • Mindful Drawing•15 minutes
  • Close Looking with Art•7 minutes
  • Why use open-ended questions?•3 minutes
8 readings•Total 80 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 2•10 minutes
  • Consider: Mindful Drawing & Close Looking with Art•10 minutes
  • Consider: Strategies for Close Looking•10 minutes
  • Consider: Developing Open-Ended Questions•10 minutes
  • Consider: Themes & Essential Questions•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 2•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•10 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Close Looking & Open-Ended Questions•30 minutes

In this module, we will explore how art and Social Emotional Learning can deepen students’ attention, self-awareness, as well as their awareness of others.

What's included

9 videos11 readings

9 videos•Total 28 minutes
  • Art as a Tool for Social Emotional Learning (SEL)•12 minutes
  • Introduction to Learning with MoMA Lessons•2 minutes
  • Lesson on Self-Awareness: Rirkrit Tiravanija•2 minutes
  • Lesson on Self-Awareness: Carrie Mae Weems•2 minutes
  • Lesson on Social Awareness: Shambhavi•2 minutes
  • Lesson on Social Awareness: Charles White•2 minutes
  • Lesson for Creating Community: Frida Kahlo •2 minutes
  • Lesson for Creating Community: Helen Levitt•2 minutes
  • Adapting Non-SEL Lessons•3 minutes
11 readings•Total 105 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 3•10 minutes
  • SEL Frameworks That Have Inspired Us•10 minutes
  • Lesson Links: Self-Awareness•10 minutes
  • Lesson Links: Social Awareness•10 minutes
  • Lesson Links: Creating Community•10 minutes
  • Lesson Links: Adapting Non-SEL Lessons•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 3•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources •10 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
  • Mid-course survey•5 minutes
  • Reminder: CTLE for New York State educators•10 minutes

This module focuses on activities as a mode of inquiry. In this module you’ll explore how to use three kinds of activities in your classroom to effectively promote an exchange of ideas with students.

What's included

3 videos7 readings

3 videos•Total 16 minutes
  • Artist's Process: Preparatory Drawings•4 minutes
  • Artist's Process: Weaving•8 minutes
  • Artist's Process: Designing & Re-Designing Everyday Objects•3 minutes
7 readings•Total 120 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 4•10 minutes
  • Consider: Drawing & Writing as Inquiry•10 minutes
  • Consider: Material Exploration as Inquiry•10 minutes
  • Consider: Design Thinking as Inquiry•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 4•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•60 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes

In this module you will consider ways to incorporate inquiry about a work of art into your classroom and make connections to different subject areas including Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Science.

What's included

3 videos13 readings1 assignment

3 videos•Total 21 minutes
  • Ruth Asawa and Social Studies•6 minutes
  • Ruth Asawa and English Language Arts•8 minutes
  • Ruth Asawa and Science•7 minutes
13 readings•Total 125 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 5•10 minutes
  • Case Study: Ruth Asawa•10 minutes
  • Suggested Curricular Connections: Art, Inquiry, and Social Studies•10 minutes
  • Suggested Curricular Connections: Art, Inquiry, and English Language Arts•10 minutes
  • Suggested Curricular Connections: Art, Inquiry, and Science•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 5•10 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
  • End-of-course survey•5 minutes
  • CTLE for New York State educators•10 minutes
  • MoMA Resources•10 minutes
  • Tips for Teaching Students with Disabilities•10 minutes
  • Activity Sheets from Art & Inquiry Newsletters•10 minutes
  • Virtual Event Recordings•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Final Project: Design an Inquiry-Based Lesson•30 minutes

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Reviewed on Jun 24, 2021

very engaging and inspiring course with lots of insights and practical tips in enquiry based and open ended learning.

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Reviewed on Apr 21, 2020

I was able to take away a lot of interesting things for my teaching but also for my own way of interacting with art. Thank you!

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Reviewed on Feb 25, 2019

Its an amazing course for teaching strategies not only classrooms but also informal teaching techniques. I enjoyed the course and it create an experience with artworks and museum learning.

Frequently asked questions

This course has been designed for primary and secondary (K-12) teachers of all subjects, but we encourage anyone interested in teaching with art to enroll. No prior knowledge of art history is required.

You will develop an understanding of the benefits of using inquiry and activities, while also learning techniques for integrating art across your curriculum. You will also learn how Social Emotional Learning enables students to cultivate self-awareness, social awareness, and their understanding of community.

Coursera currently provides certificates of completion.

MoMA offers New York State teachers Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit for individual courses and for the three-course specialization developed for K-12 educators. More information about CTLE in New York State is included in the courses. MoMA does not offer any other accreditations at this time.  

Inquiry-based and activity-based teaching directly builds required critical thinking, textual/visual evidence-gathering, and literacy skills. Module 5 of this course specifically provides instruction in how to integrate inquiry-based techniques across subject areas.

The multimodal activities featured in this course can be scaled down for primary school students or up for high schoolers and the course’s educators provide tips for scaling your lesson plans. 

Yes! This course’s final project is designed to leave you with a lesson plan you can immediately bring into your classroom and add to your teaching portfolio.

Yes! There are downloadable materials, including lesson plans and activities, in this course.

This course provides instruction for facilitating inquiry, rather than lecturing on art history.

The Museum of Modern Art’s educators possess expertise in creating and facilitating active lesson plans that use art, inquiry, and activities as a catalyst for student-centered discovery. Across the three courses in the Teaching with Art Specialization they’ll share techniques that will transform your teaching practice using active, object-based learning and provide an alternative to the traditional teacher-as-lecturer model.

To access the course materials, assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience when you enroll in a course. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid. The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.

Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.

Financial aid available,