Challenging Issues for Docents:

from Kaleidoscope 2001

• Staff/Docent Relationships
   
• Docent evaluation/peer evaluation
   
• Home School tours
   
• How to retire someone out of active touring graciously
   
• Uniting two separate museums’ programs and docents
   
• Touring with mixed ages
   
• Parents or chaperones who interfere with the tour or wander off
   
• Funding docent support systems
   
• Trying to get the Education Department to stress training in galleries  rather than Art History lectures

These issues are all relevant today.  Most of them will be the subject of a Roundtable Discussion in St. Louis. 

Look for the reports which will be posted soon after the symposium.  Maybe we can solve them this time around.