CTLE-ACCREDITED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS
Super-charge student engagement with digital literacy and media activities for all grades and content areas.
Would you like to become an educational partner of the Museum, and test our free media curriculum and educational game activities in your classroom? Sign up below and choose how you'd like to collaborate with us. For principals and school administrators, learn more here.
Museum of the Moving Image offers professional development programs for upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers of all content areas, as well as other education professionals. Join us to learn how to introduce your classroom to the moving image: a diverse art form that encompasses film, television, video games, animation, and other multimedia that capture image motion. Guided by a media educator, teachers explore using the moving image as an instructional tool for engaging students with fun media activities. Interactive web pages, animated social media content, GIFs, and live broadcasts are also forms of the moving image, and featured in our professional development programs.
All activities presented in our programs are easily modifiable for a wide range of learners, and help engage students in diverse subjects, including social studies, civics, English language arts, math, science, art, and English as a second language. Professional development classes and workshops are offered virtually and onsite in the Museum’s Digital Learning Suite, where social distancing is currently in place. Every session includes hands-on media-making. Teachers receive CTLE credit for all courses and workshops.
Museum of the Moving Image PD for Teachers includes:
- Hands-on media activities and lesson plans aligned to learning standards
- A range of programs for teacher professional development, ranging from short workshop sessions to tailorable partnerships that include coaching and game kits
MEDIA GAME BOX PARTNERSHIP
Test out one of our cutting-edge educational boxes in your classroom, which includes 15 activities and games to teach filmmaking and game design. Applicable to any subject and any grade level. Each classroom receives one free classroom kit and evaluation form, with a coupon for 25% off a museum school visit. Also included: one session with a museum educator to help tailor the kit to your grade level and subject. Space is limited to 50 classrooms. Sign up here.
TEACHER CHALLENGE: MOVING IMAGE MASTERMINDS
For the 2022–23 school year, we are sponsoring a Teacher Challenge, open to all NYC public school teachers. Every teacher who joins the Museum Image Masterminds Challenge will earn a digital badge in the moving image and enter a lesson plan contest for the chance to win a teacher recognition award and have student work displayed at the Museum.
You may complete the challenge on your own, or sign up for an introductory orientation session. Open sessions are offered for coaching every first and last Tuesday of the month. The first 50 teachers to register for the Moving Image Masterminds Challenge will receive a free welcome kit, featuring custom-made Museum of the Moving Image games to use in the classroom, accompanied by a game activity book featuring the history of film, TV, and video games. For more information, email us at [email protected].
TEACHER & SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
For a limited number of schools, we provide school partnerships of semester-long and year-long moving image programs that include lesson plans, tool kits, museum field trips, and coaching from a media educator. Schools select one theme for their year-long or semester-long partnership: media puppetry, video game design, filmmaking, or civics. Schools also have the option of choosing whether they would like to have a Museum Media Instructor lead a moving image class for students (meeting once or twice weekly) or receive a curriculum guide and teacher coaching. We are now accepting applications for school partnerships. To apply, please complete this application. A representative from the Museum will get in touch with you about your application.
MOVING IMAGE BADGE FOR YOUTH
Through our workshops and short courses, NYC teachers can earn CTLE hours. Bring digital literacy with the moving image to your students. Students ages K–12 complete 10 hours of media activities (synchronous and asynchronous) to earn a badge in the moving image to demonstrate filmmaking, animation, and game design skills. Schools select one theme for their year-long or semester-long partnership: media puppetry, video game design, filmmaking, or civics. Each course is tailored to student age/interest and has been proven to increase digital literacy skills. Sign up here.
SEMESTER- AND YEAR-LONG MEDIA PROGRAMS IN FILMMAKING OR GAME DESIGN
Bring greater digital literacy and media-making fun to your school with one of a semester or year-long partnerships. Each partnership is tailorable to your needs and includes: certificates and badges to demonstrate achievement; professional development for staff; in-school workshops taught by our team of filmmakers, digital artists, and game designers; free games and activities; and field trips to explore media history and content creation in Museum of the Moving Image's galleries. Choose a specialty in game design, media puppetry, animation, documentary, or narrative filmmaking (or combine all three). Sign up here.
MOVING IMAGE BADGE FOR TEACHERS
Calling all teachers! Learn how to super-charge student engagement in your class with fun media activities for all ages and earn CTLE hours. This introductory course shows you how to incorporate digital literacy with the moving image into any class. Teachers complete 8 hours of media activities (synchronous and asynchronous) to earn a badge in the moving image in an area of their choice: filmmaking (choose between documentary or narrative), digital art, animation, or game design. Each course is tailored to grade level and subject matter of the teacher. Includes activities proven to increase digital literacy skills. Sign up here.
TAILORED PROGRAMS
Request a tailored professional development session for your school. Three-hour programs are available to New York City public school teachers free of charge; non-NYC public school groups should contact the Education Department for pricing at [email protected]. Programs can be offered onsite or virtually, and are available by appointment only for groups of 10–30 teachers. All programs include a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition Behind the Screen. Program options include:
Film and Television in the Classroom
Participate in a "Screening America" program and discuss the ways in which movies and television can be used in your classroom to teach English, English as a Second Language, Art, and Social Studies. Available by appointment for groups of 10–30 teachers. Free for NYC Public School teachers. All others contact the education department for rates.
Presidential Campaigns, Television, and the Internet
In this workshop for teachers of Social Studies and English Language Arts, Museum educators work with you to explore the Museum’s online exhibition The Living Room Candidate. Learn about the history of presidential campaign commercials and discuss ways of integrating the site’s resources into your curriculum. Available by appointment for groups of 10–30 teachers. Free for NYC Public School teachers. All others contact the education department for rates.
VIdeo Games and Learning
Discover ways in which video games can be integrated into your curriculum through hands-on demonstrations of video game technology and your own participation in a Video Game Programming Workshop. This session is designed for teachers of Social Studies, Science, Math, and Art. Available by appointment for groups of 10–30 teachers. Free for NYC Public School teachers. All others contact the education department for rates.
Customized Program
Museum staff is available to work with groups to create customized professional development programs ranging from half-day workshops to multi-day seminars. Catering is available as well. Please contact [email protected] for more information about options and pricing.
