Description: These pedagogical failure moves were generated by informal educators during their Failure in Making sessions.
Created by: The Tech Interactive
Category: Setting Context
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Preparing for Failure
Description: These slides were used to frame a discussion around the following question: How do we prepare for failure?
Created by: Scott Family Amazeum
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Sticky Note Brainstorm
Prompt: Write down examples of effective and non-effective language that could be used to help a guest who is dealing with a failure moment.
Adapted by: The Tech Interactive
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The Big List of Ideas of How to Work With Failure in Making
Description: This list of strategies and ideas was generated by kids and educators in a previous project. These strategies focus on preparing for failure before the making activity and how to handle failure within the making activity.
Created by: The AAA Research Team
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Hodge Podge of Strategies
Description: This document includes a range of pedagogical strategies to use with informal educators and youth.
Created by: The AAA Research Team
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Failure Learner Type Activity
Description: This game is an extension of the Making Connections game developed by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. We added failure specific Learner Types, Learning Practices, and Facilitation Strategies. To help develop the role playing scenario we have included a spinner (download the html file and open on your computer).
Instructions:
- Choose your roles (you will rotate): Learner, Educator, PD Facilitator
- Spin!
- Role Play
- Learner verbalizes what is going on
- Educator responds
- When done, PD Facilitator comments on how they would facilitate a reflection
- Switch roles, spin again!
Created by: Alice Anderson & Adam Maltese
Below is the original Making Connections game, instructions and cards:
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Embracing Failure Scenarios
Description: These scenarios were created to discuss what individual educators would do if they experienced the situation. The scenarios were also developed based on actual events and activities within the organization.
Created by: The Tech Interactive
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Lead by Example
Description: Lead facilitator shares a “negative” clip to start a discussion of visitors’ fear of failure and how to validate. We’ve shared two clips you can use, but we encourage you to find and share your own.
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Failure in Making Flowchart
Description: How do you respond to a student when they express a fear of failure or fear of messing something up? This flowchart provides educators with possible pedagogical moves to support youth through their fears. Use this flowchart as a basis to create your own.
Created by: The Bakken Museum
Adapted by: The Museum of Science, Boston
Description: We did this activity as a sticky note brainstorm based on four learner worries from the exhibit we were using in this project.
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Piecewise Failure Definition
Description: For this activity, find and present several definitions of failure to compare/contrast or agree/disagree. We included a list of failure definitions to consider for this activity, including the failure definitions of our partnering sites. You may decide to create a working definition of failure through piecing together words and phrases from other’s failure definition.
Adapted by: Scott Family Amazeum