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Team-Based Inquiry

ASTC Preconference Workshop, October 18

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Workshop Goals

Encourage and empower museum professionals to use team-basedinquiry to improve informal education experiences

1.Understand what TBI is and how it can be used to moreeffectively develop educational experiences and improveprofessional practice

2.Value TBI as a tool

3.Develop skills to use TBI

4.Use professional resources to try implementing TBI in your ownwork

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Speed Dating

•What are three surprising things that mostpeople might not know about you?

•How do you currently get information to helpimprove your work or the educationalexperiences you create and deliver?

•How did you become involved in ISE ormuseum work?

•What experience have you had withevaluation?

•What is your best (or worst) science-relatedchildhood memory?

•What is a current challenge in your work or atyour institution that you would like to addresswithin the next year?

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Team-Based Inquiry

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Team-Based Inquiry

An approach to empowering professionals to get the data theyneed, when they need it, in order to improve their products andpractices and create successful educational experiences

Question

Investigate

Reflect

Improve

•Systematic

•Led by non-evaluationprofessionals

•Collaborative andteam based

•Small scale andfocused

•Embedded in work

•Systematic

•Led by non-evaluationprofessionals

•Collaborative andteam based

•Small scale andfocused

•Embedded in work

“Horton Senses Something Small”

Data collection

•Observations of participants

•Surveys with caregivers and parents

Example improvements

•Shortened story

•Prompted participation

Does the program engage young children? How could it be improved?

Are educational posters worth including in the NanoDays 2012 kit?

NanoDays 2012 Posters

Data collection

•Interviews with 30 visitors atthree museums

•Informal observations

•Debrief with educators

Example lessons learned

•Visitors liked the graphics andsuggested improvements

•Educators felt graphics attractedattention and defined space

Are we achieving our meeting goals? How can we better support participants?

NISE Regional Meetings

Data collection

Butcher paper and sticky notes:

(1)What do you value most about thismeeting?

(2)What’s one thing you’re taking from thismeeting to bring back to yourinstitution?

(3)In what ways can the Network furthersupport you nano education work?

Example lessons learned

•More opportunities for partners to share

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Team-Based Inquiry

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TBI In Action

Question

Investigate

Reflect

Improve

How could this activitybe improved?

Collect feedback byinterviewing visitorsafter activity.

Review interviewresponses to identifycommon patterns.

Brainstorm, prioritize,and implementsolutions.

TBI In Action

Phase 1: Question

Question

Investigate

Reflect

Improve

How can this activity beimproved to be more engagingfor visitors and bettercommunicate the mainmessage about nanoscience?

How can this activity beimproved to be more engagingfor visitors and bettercommunicate the mainmessage about nanoscience?

Collect feedback byinterviewing visitorsafter activity.

Review interviewresponses to identifycommon patterns.

Brainstorm, prioritize,and implementsolutions.

Phase 1: Question

Ferrofluid Activity

How can this activity be improved to be moreengaging for visitors and better communicate themain message about nanoscience?

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Phase 2: Investigate

Question

Investigate

Reflect

Improve

Collect feedback byinterviewing visitorsafter activity.

Review interviewresponses to identifycommon patterns.

Brainstorm, prioritize,and implementsolutions.

How could this activitybe improved?

Phase 2: Investigate

Connect

Collect

Phase 3: Reflect

Question

Investigate

Reflect

Improve

Collect feedback byinterviewing visitorsafter activity.

Review interviewresponses to identifycommon patterns.

Brainstorm, prioritize,and implementsolutions.

How could this activitybe improved?

Step 3: Reflect

Phase 4: Improve

Question

Investigate

Reflect

Improve

Collect feedback byinterviewing visitorsafter activity.

Brainstorm, prioritize,and implementsolutions.

Review interviewresponses to identifycommon patterns.

How could this activitybe improved?

Phase 4: Improve

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Wrap-Up

1.At the end of this workshop, are therenew TBI questions that you might wantto investigate related to your own workor projects at your institution?

2.What are the three most importantthings you will take away from thisworkshop?

3.What are three things you would like todo at your institution or as part of yourwork based on what you've learned orpracticed today?

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Wrap-Up

•How can we make staff meetings moreuseful and efficient?

•What exhibit topics are visitors interestedin?

•What communication strategies areworking well and not so well on thisproject?

•What would my staff like the departmentto focus on over the next year?

•How do local community organizationscurrently perceive the accessibility of ourinstitution?

TBI Guide

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Questions and Comments

This presentation is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0940143.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this presentation are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.