Working with teenagers in museums, galleries and archives

Anne's popular training courses on working with teenagers explore young people’s needs and identify strategies for engaging with them effectively.

Anne's courses can be adapted for a range of national, regional and in-house training needs. She provides training for frontline staff, education and learning managers and staff, audience development managers and other staff members and volunteers.

Learning outcomes include:

  • greater understanding of the needs and expectations of young people
  • more insight into effective ways to communicate with teenagers
  • more knowledge of current national policies and trends relating to teenagers
  • practical methods for improving provision for this age group
  • new ideas for successful projects, programmes and activities
  • strategies for effective consultation, marketing, promotion, planning and evaluation
  • greater confidence with teenagers

All Anne's courses are complemented with extensive handouts.

What people say about this training

The course made me much more aware of the needs of this audience.

Like the approach of drawing on the experience of everyone in the room. Also flexibility of tailoring content to attendees. Good relevant, recent case studies and sources of further info. Great reading list and web links in handouts.

Topics were raised on areas I was unaware of - very useful!

Hearing from others who have had similar experiences to me has given me more confidence.

We have been inspired to think about the perceptions we have of teenagers and theirs of us.

The course dealt with many interesting aspects of teenagers' needs and desires within the education arena.

Even I'm only just 20 years old I was very interested and engaged by this course. I think it has provided me with a different perspective on how I treat teenagers and will definitely come in useful in my job here (but also broader in my life).

I really enjoyed learning about marketing (how to make teenagers interested in museums).

The course was good at making us look at things from a teenager's point of view.

Very interesting to be asked our opinions of how the museum can better attract and cater for teenagers.

Thoroughly interesting and enlightening course.