Educational Services

Teachers’ Workshop

The activity’s design is a pedagogic project that considers three clearly defined moments and some actions to be developed in each one of these moments. These are before, doring and after the visit.

Objectives

1. To establish dialogue spaces with the teachers in order to answer their doubts and exchange pedagogic and didactic experiences with them.

2. To give the teachers educational tools that allow them to prepare the activity and to address historical facts in a much more dynamic and objective way.

3. To let the teachers get to know the two museums’ areas and collections.

4. To spread and develop the different didactic materials designed for children and young people.

5. To put in context some of the curricular linings the Ministry of Education has for the Social Studies areas.

Teachers’ Workshop Design

Topics

The causes of independence, the heroes and facts of July 20, 1810; Simón Bolívar’s time, ideals and daily life, and the national monuments’ artistic and architectural historical values.

Methodological aspects of the student’s visit’s preparation.

The motivation and preparation about historical facts that happened in the two museums and these facts’ relation with the present, done previously in the classroom.

The logistical organization of the children’s reception and location in the museums’ areas.

Procedure

Meeting to establish the criteria that define work with children and teenagers in museums.

Recognition of the material needed to prepare the visit.

Previous visits with the material to be done by the students

Screening of videos

Experiences exchange. Questions.

Materials

We have a specially designed material for teachers which contains information abaout the houses’ history. Teachers will be able to properly prepare their student’s visit. This material includes:

1. Advises for teachers.

2. Q & A.

3. A brief biography of Bolívar and one of Manuelita.

4. Instructions for the didactic material’s use.

5. Monthly newsletter with information on the two museums’ cultural activities.

6. Museum’s map.

7. Information on the main topics from the social studies curriculum.

8. Teachers allowed per workshop: 5-40.