Professional Development for Educators
Professional Development Workshops
All of MCM’s professional development sessions are innovative and research-based, and cater to professionals working with early childhood students or elementary-aged children. Our museum staff provides quality enrichment training for teachers to help improve their skills and grow their knowledge base.
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For a complete listing of professional development workshops offered by MCM, click here.
Don’t take it from us, take it from the teachers! Take a look at these comments from teachers about MCM Professional Development Workshops:
- “Excellent learning experience!”
- “I have struggled with applying inquiry in my classroom, and this workshop gave me useful ideas that I will use.”
- “MCM teacher workshops are so motivating, and they renewed my creative ability!”
- “I learned things that I can share with all of the teachers at my school.”
- “The learning atmosphere was fun, relaxing and exciting. The workshop stretched me beyond my comfort zone. Teaching the Inquiry-based learning method is difficult for me but with the help of this workshop and my colleagues I came up with a good lesson plan that I will use.”
- “This workshop provided me with fun ways to find the answer!”
- “I loved getting to explore the museum with a goal! This is inquiry-based learning at its best. The workshop made inquiry-based learning easy to understand. I will bring the lessons I learned here back to my classroom.”
- “I would most definitely recommend this workshop to other teachers because it gives teachers a hands-on walk through and a visual for teaching the inquiry-based process.”
- “MCM professional development workshops helped me gain insight into the way my students learn.”
- “I will do more of these types of lessons in my own classroom.”
- “I enjoyed interacting and networking with other teachers in a fun environment.”
- “MCM is a great learning environment.”
- “In this workshop, we as teachers get to experience what our students do and think in the classroom.”




