The Columbus Museum, located in Columbus, GA, serves as both an art and regional history museum, offering programming that supports educators and students across the Muscogee County School District and the broader Chattahoochee River Valley.
Middle and high school ELA educators and academic coaches will participate in a professional development series focused on integrating the arts into their curriculum and fostering a student-led learning environment, inspired by the “Art Bridges Partner Network: American Art from the 1920s and 1930s” exhibition.
RQI will be hosting a 3 hour in person session as part of the series. RQI’s session, titled, “Questioning and Meaning-Making: How Powerful Questions Can Build Students’ Visual Literacy Skills” will address the following:
- Why is asking your own questions powerful, and what are the barriers that prevent some people from doing so?
- How do we ensure that all students can access and harness their innate curiosity to make meaning?
- How do you design and plan for student questioning to propel your learning objectives and curriculum?
Teachers will:
- Name the connections between agency, self-advocacy, and questioning.
- Learn the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), an inquiry-based step-by-step approach to teaching students to ask and use their own questions.
- Create a lesson plan that applies the QFT and integrates the arts in their own setting.