Professional Learning for Teachers
Workshops for Educators & Practitioners!
Interested in integrating the history of the Chinese in America into your classroom? MOCA is a NYSED-approved CTLE sponsor and hosts standards-aligned professional learning workshops throughout the year.
MOCA provides in-depth professional development opportunities and K‒12 teaching resources which use the museum’s unique exhibitions and collections in a source-based and arts-integrated approach to teaching and learning.
Participate in hands-on activities and dynamic gallery tours that explore the diverse history, art, and culture of people of Chinese descent in the United States. Learn how to use MOCA’s rich collections and the Chinese American experience to teach your students about broader issues of power, immigration, community, and inclusion. Workshops utilize a mix of inquiry and primary source-based learning embedded within a culturally relevant, socially just framework.
MOCA also offers customized trainings, workshops, and tours tailored to your school or department's curriculum and interests. During these workshops, MOCA education staff discusses approaches to inquiry and document-based teaching strategies, and assists teachers in strengthening content knowledge, using the museum's collections to enrich and enliven the teaching of history in the classroom.
Our School and Educator Programs supports Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) standards and state curriculum and instruction in the ELA, Arts, Social Studies, and History.
For more information, to plan a workshop, or to find out how MOCA can be an educational partner, please contact
Past Programs
Building America, Shaping History: the Chinese & the Iron Road
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2019 @ 9am - 2:30pm
Exploring Music & Memory in the Diaspora with MOCA & the Museum at Eldridge Street
Thursday, Jun 6, 2019 @ 9am - 3pm
Chinatown in the Public Imagination: Photography, History, & Memory
Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 9am - 1pm
Seeing Objects, Finding Stories: Bringing Visual Literacy into the Classroom
Tue. Nov 6, 2018 @ 9:30am -1pm
Unsettling the American West: Rewriting Narratives of Westward Expansion
Thursday, June 7th, 2018 @ 9:00am - 3:00pm
Brooklyn Immigration: 1965-Present in partnership with Brooklyn Connections
Thursday, November 7th, 2017 @ 9:00am - 3:00pm
Free Open House for Educators & Curator-led Tour of FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures
Thursday, October 26th, 2017 @ 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Role Call: Asian American Visibility on Stage and Screen
Chancellor's Day Workshop
Thursday, June 8th, 2017 @ 9:00am - 3:00pm
A Migrating Person Carries Full Dreams: Stories from Chinese America
Chancellor's Day Workshop
Monday, January 30th, 2017 @ 9:30am-12:30pm
Beyond General Tso’s: Exploring Chinese Food through Stories of Immigration
Election Day Workshop
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 9am - 3pm
Free Curator-led Tour of Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy for NYC Teachers
Thursday, Oct 27th, 2016 @ 4:30pm – 6pm
The Chinese Exclusion Act & Immigration in America
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
July 10 – July 22, 2016 (2 weeks)
Perception & Policy: Immigrant Identity & the Lower East Side
Chancellor's Day Workshop
Thursday, June 9th, 2016 @ 9am - 3pm
"Is Yellow Black or White?" - Asian Americans & Civil Rights!
Chancellor's Day Workshop
Feb. 1, 2016 @ 8:30am - 12:30pm
Inside/Outside: Urban Spaces in Chinatown and the Lower East Side
Election Day Workshop
November 3, 2015 @ 8:30am - 3:30pm
"Asians Never Fail:" Connecting History, Identity, & the Model Minority Myth
Chancellor's Day Workshop
Thu, Jun 4, 2015 @ 10:00am - 1:30pm
Dim Sum & History with MOCA and N-YHS
Chancellor's Day Workshop
Saturday, January 31, 2015 @ 10am - 2pm
Teachers' Night @ MOCA!
Thursday, September 18, 2014 @ 4:30pm - 7pm
