Trainers enable people to do something — catch a football, perform heart surgery, ride a bicycle. Educators enable people to know something— the dimensions of a football field, the arterial system, the history of bicycles. All training involves some knowledge imparted before and during training. Therefore, the terms are commonly …
I read the article “Pedagogical Techniques for Being a More Effective Teacher,” which appeared in the previous issue of The Decent Educator, (Autumn 1999) the night before I had my first fall children’s tour with third and fourth graders. The teachers wanted a highlights tour of the museum so I …
Museum rewards and incentives don’t seem to have much to do with why docents stay and why they leave, it the experiences of The Birmingham Museum of Art over the last 47 years mean anything. In 1952, The Kress Foundation deeded 29 works to The Birmingham Museum of Art. Two …