Providing Teachers With What They Need: Re-thinking Historic Site-based Professional Development After Small-scale Assessment

Abstract

Supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant, Mystic Seaport Museum educators present how findings from evaluations of their teacher professional development programs challenged them to reconsider what it means to understand and support teachers’ unique professional needs. Included is a discussion of what it means to be teacher educators, including the support museum educators need to engage with that professional responsibility.