Teacher Programs, 2011-2012
The National Portrait Gallery provides professional development workshops throughout the academic year to teachers. Integrating portraiture into the classroom can provide exciting opportunities to connect students with history, biography, visual art, and many other subjects. Some workshops focus on specific exhibition themes, while others take a broader look at the museum’s collection. All workshops require preregistration and include interactive tours of a selected exhibition, hands-on components, and take-away resources that provide teachers with innovative ideas and techniques they can adapt for classroom use. All programs take place in the National Portrait Gallery’s Education Center, Room E151, in the “American Origins” exhibition on the first floor.
During the 2011–12 academic year, each of the professional development workshops offered by the National Portrait Gallery will be collaborations with other institutions.
For Teachers By Teachers
Workshop Presented with Metro DC, VA, MD Teachers
Saturday, January 28, 2012
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
 Have you ever wondered how fellow teachers are utilizing the National Portrait Gallery’s collection in their classroom? Here is your chance to find out! Join us for this one–of-a- kind workshop where local teachers will share their ideas for integrating portraiture into the classroom and model successful strategies they have implemented with their students.
Be the Curator
Workshop presented with the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saturday, March 10, 2012
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Museum curators communicate ideas through exhibitions. Join educators from the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a day-long workshop on incorporating exhibitions into classroom teaching. Discover how curators make their decisions—including selecting artworks on a certain theme, arranging them to tell a story, and writing labels to accompany them. Participants will then place themselves in a curatorial role and create their own exhibition, using works in both collections. Participants will also brainstorm about ways of incorporating a “Be the Curator” activity into their classroom lessons and receive teaching resources.
African Americans in the NPG’s Collection
Workshop presented with the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Saturday, May 19, 2012
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
 Join educators from the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and Culture for a day-long workshop examining the portrayal of African Americans throughout American history. Discover and compare how African Americans have been and are portrayed, and how that portrayal has changed over time. Participants will explore works in the Portrait Gallery’s collection, collaborate to develop ways of incorporating these images into their classroom lessons, and receive teaching resources.
Understanding the Civil War through Art
Workshop presented with the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saturday, October 29, 2012
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 19, 2012
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 3, 2012
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Take part in a collaborative teacher resource development project with educators from the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In this three-part workshop, teams will mark the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War through explorations of the art of the time.
The first workshop will focus on modeling looking strategies to use when analyzing artworks in the classroom. During the second workshop, teachers will learn about the Civil War collection at the Portrait Gallery from Historian Jim Barber and the upcoming exhibition at the American Art Museum, “The Civil War and American Art” http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/art_civil_war/ from Chief Curator Eleanor Harvey. In the final workshop, small groups will work together to develop two activities, one using the Portrait Gallery’s collection and one based on the American Art Museum’s exhibition. These activities may be selected for publication on the museums’ websites or exhibition guides.
Slots will be evenly distributed slots for elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Teams of teachers representing a multidisciplinary approach (social studies, English language arts, visual arts) are encouraged to register together.
Please note that attendance at all three sessions is mandatory.
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REGISTRATION FORM
Please use the printable registration for all teacher workshops, and be sure to include all required information. The application should be emailed to the address above.
 Registration form (doc)
"READING" PORTRAITURE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS
Learn how to use portraits as tools to teach about significant individuals and the eras in which they lived.
 Print guide (pdf)
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