Thanks to the dynamic and dedicated staff at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, there is always something new and exciting happening at the museum for students in the GST BOCES region to discover! The three women in the photograph above - Education Coordinator, Lori Rajsky; Director of Education, Gigi Alvare; School and Docent Program Manager, Mary Mix - all work in the education department and have a special mission to provide young visitors of the GST BOCES region and beyond with an educational experience they will not be able to forget. They accomplish this through schools tours and special programs which reach out and attract students and their teachers and families from pre-K through high school. Each experience is standards-based arts in education in action through which students develop visual literacy, critical thinking and communication skills during the tours. Curriculum connections are made with writing, listening, speaking, patterns, geometry, math by counting and exploring comparative terms, symbols and mathematical sequencing, light and shadow, animal families, communities, families, career options, history of the Native Americans, U.S. History, Geography.
In the video below, Mary, Gigi and Lori speak about the instrinsic benefits of Arts in Education and how the Rockwell Museum can help students meet NY State mandated standards.
To read more about these tours and the exciting experiences awaiting people of all ages at the museum, check out the GST BOCES web-page http://www.gstboces.org/iss/artsineducation/rockwell2009.htm.
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