The Palmer Museum of Art: Facilitation of Experiential Learning

     This week during our AEE 412 lab, we got to take a tour of the Palmer Museum of Art to learn a little bit more about the facilitation of field trips and experiential learning opportunities for our students. We went through the tour as if we were there to learn about the art and divulge into some of the pieces, however, we also got to peek behind the curtain and ask our guides a little bit about the different teaching styles they use when leading a tour. 

    For example, when viewing the first piece, they used a lecturing technique to give us lots of information about the piece, and they also connected some of the information to agriculture, because they knew our background and understood the audience they were speaking to. In another portion of the tour, we got to experience some inquiry-based techniques in which the students got to lead the discussion somewhat because we got to build off of our prior knowledge and let the tour guide know what the piece was "saying" to us and what we thought about the piece. The last form/technique we got to experience was some student-led instruction in which we received prompts and got to go pick a piece of art that we thought best fit our prompt. We then went around to one another's pieces and got to listen to their prompt and their reasons for choosing that piece of art. 

    This was all awesome and great, but I think the most valuable thing that I took away from this experience was the tips we got for facilitating one of these trips. We got to talk about how we reach out to these awesome places that we may want to take our students, what an appropriate time frame is for planning a trip, and how we should follow up with our contact people to ensure that everyone is on the same page for the day of the trip. It is also important that we communicate the things that we may need or accommodations that may be needed for some students in our class. These are all things that were brought to the forefront in our conversations at the museum, and it is important information that we need to know in order to provide our students with awesome experiential learning opportunities in our classes. 











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  1. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2022 at 3:58 PM

    Baylor,
    I also had a very similar takeaway from this experience! It was really helpful being able to see the behind-the-scenes of field trip planning and collecting those for future reference, especially the small things like a night before check-in and getting the facilitator a small gift. Keep up the good work!

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  2. Carly RudySeptember 18, 2022 at 8:22 AM

    Baylor, I also had the same takeaways from this experience. While I wasn't in your lab section, I would be interested to see which pieces everyone picked that represented them/their prompt. Good job!

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