Workshop 2

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: Bakken Museum)

These scenarios were created to discuss what individual educators would do if they experienced a situation. The scenarios were also developed based on actual events and activities within the organization.  (Created by: The Tech Interactive)

These slides were used to frame a discussion around the following question: How do we prepare for failure? (Created by: Scott Family Amazeum)

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)

This is a game that requires individuals to work as a team and learn from other’s mistakes to help accomplish a common goal. The trick is that you can only use non-verbal actions to communicate with one another.  The Bakken Museum uses this with their youth to talk about failure, which may become a part of your plans. We also include a video of us engaging in the Marvin’s Swamp activity. The video includes the directions as presented to us. (Created by: The Bakken Museum)

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)

This document includes a range of pedagogical strategies to use with informal educators and youth. (Created by: The AAA Research Team)