Art Center-School System Cooperative Program

FAIN: ES-10345-74

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Marilyn F. Hoffman (Project Director: January 1975 to present)

To develop a three-year education program in cooperation with the Brockton Public School System, coordinating Art Center programs with the new social studies curriculum for Brockton 5th & 6th grades. The program includes the following activities: (1) coordination of Art Center exhibitions with the school curriculum;(2) thematic coordination of year-long loan exhibitions with the school curriculum; (3) creation of educationally effective installations of the MFA loan exhibitions;(4) docent training seminars; (5) in-school preparation to enrich child's museum visit;(6) teacher training workshops; (7) an experimental docent training course concentrating