The DuSable Museum of African American History, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, National Museum of Mexican Art, and Smart Museum of Art co-host an annual Summer Teacher Institute that fuses American art, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and the vision of museums, educators, and students as agents for social change. (teacher)ĭownload sample materials from this program here. “Muchas gracias a ti y a tu equipo por habernos dado la oportunidad de exponer a nuestros estudiantes, especialmente mis estudiantes de ESL que nunca habían tenido la oportunidad de conocer algo sobre arte y de visitar a un museo.” -Olga E.Many students who attended this program had never been to an art museum. There is a strong need for bilingual curriculum materials about art and culture. Learn about printmaking and its significance in Mexican American culture through the life and work of artists Luis Jiménez and Carlos Cortéz.Ĭ.1 Read closely to determine what the text/work of art says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it cite specific textual/visual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text/work of art.Ĭ.3 Analyze how and why different elements interact in a text/work of art.Ĭ.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
Learn how to conduct a close read of an artwork.Gain writing, close reading, and speaking and listening skills, which align with Common Core State Standards.Learn about historic and current-day United States public policy toward Mexican immigrants.Understand the history of Mexican immigration to the United States with an emphasis on personal stories in order to humanize a frequently overlooked population, while also learning how to interpret immigration statistics such as census data.During curriculum piloting in 2013, students whose teachers participated in curriculum planning visited the museum for a field trip, where they learned about the artwork and artists firsthand. Students approach these histories through the lens of the artwork and biographies of Mexican-American artists Luis Jiménez and Carlos Cortéz, thereby increasing their visual analysis skills, and their understanding of printmaking as an art form and its significance in Mexican American culture. history by providing the alternative points of view through diverse Mexican immigrant experiences of courage, struggle, and survival.
The curriculum An Immigrant’s Perspective utilizes artwork from the National Museum of Mexican Art’s permanent collection and texts about the immigrant experience to broaden student understanding of U.S. This teacher curriculum-development and student field trip program was designed for 6th-12th grade teachers of English language arts, Spanish, and social studies.
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