Toolkit

Epistemic FrameworkWe designed the last meeting of our training in order to reflect on individual professional paths and to enhance awareness about the profile of competencies of the museum educator. Through the VIP game they explored their professional identities,...

Designing an educational activity: What type of Educational Design Frameworks do you use for?We proposed to our participants to share some of their educational projects to find, together, the “perfect” educational design framework. At the end of the activity we send...

Discover a secret object using Open-Ended QuestionsTo practice open ended questions we designed an activity in which participants have to investigate a secret object trying to use only open ended questions, as museum educators do with museum audiences in a museum....

Practicing Active Listening through a role play In the first meeting of our training participants engaged in a role-playing game to experience both successful and ineffective active listening in a museum context.  

Educational Escape Rooms During the project lifespan SVEB presented and involved some training organisations and trainers working in Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland in Move Your Minds activities. Among them, the IFC Istituto della formazione continua, organised...

Dominant theory cardsThe card deck is used with the game scoop scan canvas. 

Game scoop card deckThe card deck is used with the game scoop scan canvas. 

Game scoop scan canvasTo engage with each other about the designs the different partners were working on, we created a game scope canvas. Inspired by an example of Evert Hoogendoorn. Besides a scan of the design we also took a critical look at the dominant theory...

Interview CanvasWe used this canvas during this project to interview each other. A practical tool to start with before starting a design.  

Ludodidactics WorkbookDuring the Train the Trainer session at the HKU in Utrecht (NL) we used the workbook with more models and the 'contextual design canvas'.