Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museum gives visitors an opportunity to explore the cultures of Asia and the Pacific Islands, and make them their own.
Now, they’d like to invite you to help.
The Pacific Asia Museum is currently doing something they only do every two years: recruiting and training new docents. They’re having an open house next Tuesday morning, May 21st, at 10:00, to answer questions about their volunteer docent program.
While the docent training program is fairly rigorous, it’s also very rewarding. According to the Museum’s website, once a docent successfully completes the program, he or she is asked to make a three-year commitment to leading tours once a week. Apparently, though, working as a docent can be habit-forming: a number of the Museum’s current docents have stayed far past the three-year mark.
Pacific Asia Museum Marketing and Communications Director Chelsea Mason and Education Programs Manager Kabir Singh talked about the museum’s docent training program, and shared some insights on effective teaching.
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