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The TAM Professional Development Certificate Program provides an incentive for Texas museum professionals to enhance their expertise by attending a series of educational programs in one of five areas of focus.

Certificates reward participants’ dedication to improve their skills and enhance their knowledge of current museum practice

Program Cost: $25 per certificate awarded.

Upon completion of the Program in your track, complete and mail the affidavit to the TAM office.

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Professional Development Certificate Program

The Texas Association of Museums is pleased to offer a new professional development training opportunity for Texas museum staff and volunteers beginning with the 2005 Annual Meeting in Dallas.

 

The TAM Professional Development Certificate combines the best of TAM's conference programming and hands-on workshops with the technical expertise and reputation of one of the nation’s premier museum associations.

Program Purpose: The TAM Professional Development Certificate Program provides an incentive for Texas museum professionals to enhance their expertise by participating in a series of educational programs in one of five areas of focus. Certificates reward participants’ dedication to improve their skills and enhance their knowledge of current museum practice.

Program Summary: Program participants will be awarded a TAM Professional Development Certificate for completion of a workshop and five (5) annual meeting sessions relating to one of six focus areas. See Core Curriculum Elements

Program Cost: $25 per certificate awarded.


Program Eligibility: Only current TAM individual members are eligible for the program.


Certificate Program Details:

  • Registration: Candidates register for the program as part of registering for the TAM Annual Meeting. Pre-registration is advised. Candidates must choose a track in one of five focus areas.
  • Workshop requirement: Must register for and attend an annual meeting pre-conference workshop in the chosen track. Exception: candidates may substitute attendance at a TAM-affiliated (e.g., sponsored by TAM or one of its regional or affinity groups) workshop during the past year (i.e., since the previous TAM annual meeting.)
  • Annual Meeting Sessions: Candidates must attend five annual meeting concurrent sessions within the declared track.
  • Affinity Group Meetings: Candidates are encouraged to attend an affinity group meeting that closely aligns with the chosen track.
  • Annual Business Meeting: Candidate must attend the TAM annual business meeting.
  • Affidavit of Completion: At the end of the annual meeting, candidates must sign and return to TAM an affidavit stating that the candidate has completed the required curriculum.
  • Time limit: Candidates must complete certificate requirements within three annual meetings.
  • Multiple Certificates: Candidates may earn multiple certificates.
  • Master TAM Professional Development Certificate: Candidates who complete three different certificate tracks over five years shall be awarded a Master TAM Professional Development Certificate plus a $40 discount coupon on a future TAM Annual Meeting registration.
  • Limitation: This program does not confer educational credits, accreditation, or other formal professional status. A TAM Professional Development Certificate certifies completion of training and is based upon the participant’s attesting to such completion.
  • Mentors: A mentor will be provided for any candidate who requests one.


Core Curriculum Elements

I. Administration (A)
Human Resources, Legal Issues, Operations, Budgeting, Governance, By laws, Mission, Board Development, Ethics

II. Resource Development (R)
Public Relations, Development, Membership, Grant writing, Marketing

III. Exhibitions (E)
Curation, Installation, Evaluation, Labels, Gallery Guides, Object Mounting, Furnishing Plans for Historic Houses, Interpretation

IV. Collections Management (C)
Accessioning, De-accessioning, Loans, Inventory, Storage, Conservation, Preservation, Archives

V. Education/Outreach (ED)
Public Programming, Special Events, Standards or Learning, Volunteers, Docent Training, Customer Service, Visitor Studies, Educational Theory

VI. Trustee (T)
Trustees: Governance, By laws, Mission, Board Development, Ethics, Legal Issues, Fund Raising

TAM Affinity Groups

Art Museums
Collection Managers Committee (CMC)
TAM-Educators (TAMEC)
Natural History Museums
Small Museums Administrators
Historic Sites/House Affinity Group
Trustees Affinity Group
Multicultural Initiatives Committee Chair

TAM Regional Associations

Austin Museum Partnership
Central Texas Museum Association
Museum Association of Southeast Texas
Museum Association of Waco
Northeast Texas Museum Association
Northwest Texas Museum Association
Permian Basin Museum Association
Southeast Texas Museum Association

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