For more information, please contact the school:
Ms. Maria Jimenez
Museums Magnet Lead Teacher
Shenandoah Middle School
1950 S.W. 19th Street
Miami, Fl 33145
TEL: 305-856-8282 FAX: 305-856-7049
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What Can Our Museums Magnet Program Offer Your Child?
* Professional magnet teaching staff, as well as visiting museum educators and professional consultants.
* Museums serve as classrooms for students and teachers.
* Teachers utilize inquiry-based teaching methods using objects and exhibitions to teach core disciplines.
* Activities are outcome and project-based.
* Curriculum is student-centered and addresses higher-level thinking and standardized testing.
* Gifted, advanced and honors classes.
* Intensive research opportunities via study trips centered on program theme.
* Special classrooms, state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment.
* Program is implemented school-wide. All students at Shenandoah Middle School are a part of the magnet program.
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Program Description
The Museums Magnet Program at Shenandoah Middle combines the resources and collections of local museums and cultural institutions to create, innovative, multidisciplinary educational experiences for students, parents and teachers. The program strives to use intstructional strategies, founded in the humanities, which allow students to develop critical and rigorousthinking skills based on individual experiences and interactions with object-based learning resources.
The Museums Magnet Program will cultivate and secure this new learning environment through professional development, community outreach, and fostering a new generation of museum goers.
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PARTNERS:
- Dade Heritage Trust Program
- Historical Museum of S. Fl
- Lowe Art Museum-Univ. of Miami
- Miami Art Museum
- The Wolfsonian-FIU
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