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Oh! My email seems to have popped up on the List... Sorry Mary - think we might have been at crossed purposes. I thought you were saying it would be great if one organisation was offering a series of relevant and related courses linked to museum education. As you say, there are lots of places offering relevant and related courses. If you're looking for courses on how to develop and how to deliver museum learning sessions, yes, that's a different matter. I suspect lots of us might have learned that on the job working with experienced educators. Some organisations have freelance or casual staff who support learning staff in delivering their menu of school workshops. I've worked for an organisation that has casual staff who delivered some sessions to free up some staff time. We ran a course for how to deliver learning from objects for all new staff/volunteers which was useful; it covered types of questions, active listening, presentation skills, exploring objects etc. The most useful element came later, on the job, and was watching a formal session/sessions, then staff would then move on to team-teaching. And in terms of development work, again, working with someone with experience. I guess a lot of jobs are like that. There are quite a few courses and workshops available that feed in to session development and delivery. e.g. Dea and Rebecca's Text Workshop courses. I appreciate what you say about not writing interpretive text when someone suggested a Text Workshop course, but quite a lot of the text we write that is intended for visitors is interpretive text of a kind and those courses can be really helpful in honing in on messages and outcomes, which is helpful framework-stuff for developing learning sessions. Maybe this lack of a course is something you could talk to GEM about and perhaps work with a regional co-ordinator to develop something to trial. I'm sure other people would be interested in Best wishes Ruth Kerr Find me online at uk.linkedin.com/in/RuthKerr Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 21:19:03 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Interpretive Training Courses To: [log in to unmask] Hello I appreciate the frustration with unpaid volunteering seeming necessary to acquire the experience to qualify for paid work but I think this is a concern that stretches across all demographics and am sorry to see it implied that 50+ is the age we should be accepting or expecting unpaid work! I would personally like and expect my skills and dedication to be remunerated well beyond then....and I suspect like most of us will not be in any financial position to hope or cope otherwise..... Sarah Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:27:23 +0100 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Fwd: RE: Interpretive Training Courses To: [log in to unmask] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mary B Hickford" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Jun 5, 2015 5:26 PM Subject: RE: Interpretive Training Courses To: "Ruth Kerr" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Hi Ruth, There are courses for the subjects you offer but I am thinking of courses for teaching educational sessions for schoolchildren which aren't expensive. Someone mentioned GEM itself but it is quite expensive so probably for those in a paid position already. I also just don't want to study related courses but nothing specific to education and learning or not actually getting a job! I don't want to end up being a volunteer which will be well-trained but not actually being paid for recognition of my skills and dedication. I am not in my 50s or 60s!!! Regards, Mary (Marette) Hickford 07811 337958 uk.linkedin.com/in/missmhickford https://twitter.com/MaretteHickford On Jun 5, 2015 9:49 AM, "Ruth Kerr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi Mary - interesting idea. Speaking as someone who has recruited for education posts, paid experience will usually win out over any courses and/or voluntary work; the sector is just so full these days. But I think the idea of "Museum Education" (whoever that may turn out to be!) having short courses is a great one - my manager doesn't have a background in museums/heritage and is keen to find some sort of overview that will help gain an understanding of the sector and of museum learning, but there's just nothing out there. That said, a day course on understanding the sector would be huge - where would you start and stop?! Conservation, learning, interpretation etc etc. In terms of museum learning, it would be great if one organisation was offering succinct courses: digital learning, activity trails, marketing to schools, marketing to families, reminiscence, writing interpretive text... I wonder if so many learning officers roles being very different to others would create a challenge? Interesting idea though. Best wishes Ruth Ruth Kerr Find me online at uk.linkedin.com/in/RuthKerr Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 02:08:32 +0100 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Fwd: Interpretive Training Courses To: [log in to unmask] Hi! I thought I'd share this information with you. Do you think Museum Education should offer equivalent courses at a low price? I would like training and development which I can only get through voluntary work but to get paid education positions, the gap is quite large. Could they make a difference? Regards, Mary (Marette) Hickford 07811 337958 uk.linkedin.com/in/missmhickford https://twitter.com/MaretteHickford ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "John A. Veverka" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Jun 4, 2015 8:21 PM Subject: Interpretive Training Courses To: <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Hi folks, We currently have course openings in the following professional interpretive development courses: Interpretive Writing (provoke, relate and reveal) for exhibits, panels, brochures, AV scripts, etc. http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_writing_course.html Interpretive Tour Planning and delivery techniques for tour guides.. http://www.heritageinterp.com/interp_for_commercial_tour_providers.html Planning/Designing Interpretive Panels http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_panels_course.html Introduction to Heritage Interpretation. http://www.heritageinterp.com/introduction_to_heritage_interpretation_course.html We have a special discount for this course for volunteers, docents and seasonal interpretive staff of only $50.00. Check for details. For our complete course list visit our on-line catalog: http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_training_center_course_catalogue_.html As a e-LIVE course, participants interact with and send homework assignments to the course coach who you can e-mail, call, skype with. All courses award Continuing Education Unit credits and certificates of completion. We currently have 17 different interpretation courses, with new additional courses under development. Let me know if you have any questions at all. 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