Below you find selected materials made available after our first event, “Bringing the Museum into the World Language Classroom: A Content-Based Professional Development Workshop,” held at Hunter College on October 19, 2018. For a full description of the program, please visit our event website.

Paciaroni’s 10-step method of art criticism

Kelly Paciaroni (Italian Teacher at Pearl River High School and Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY) developed a 10-step method to engage students in close examinations of works of art in the target language. Click on “view / download” to access the material.

• Paciaroni’s 10-step method of art criticism (view / download)

Teaching emotions through a portrait gallery

These activities for teachers of all world languages were developed by Angelique Aristondo, Sarah Litvin, and Elissa Myers (Ph.D. candidates from the Museum Pedagogy in the Classroom Team at the Teaching and Learning Center, the Graduate Center, CUNY) in collaboration with Kelly Paciaroni (Italian Teacher at Pearl River High School and Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Monica Calabritto (Associate Professor at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY). Click on “view / download” to access the materials.

• The lesson plan “Teaching Emotions Through a Portrait Gallery” (view / download)
• A set of 50 portrait images that can be used for these activities (view / download)
• A hand-out with more museum pedagogy exercises (view / download)

Conversations about emotions in Italian: A study of portraiture for beginners

Kelly Paciaroni (Italian Teacher at Pearl River High School and Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY) further adapted the activities designed by the Museum Pedagogy in the Classroom Team and tested them in her own Italian classroom. Below you can find these materials used during the afternoon session for Italian teachers — these can be used immediately in a lower level Italian class, having all of the vocabulary, preparation, and instructions built in. Click on “view / download” to access the material.

• “Conversations about emotions in Italian: A study of portraiture for beginners” (view / download)

In this video, sponsored by the Italian Consulate in New York, you can see Pearl River High School’s Italian students discuss Sebastiano del Piombo’s portrait of Vittoria Colonna with their teacher, Kelly Paciaroni.

Please note that these materials are under different Creative Commons licenses.