Welcome to Practice-based Facilitation
Practice-based Facilitation shifts the focus of learning from the educator's dissemination of knowledge to the learner's discovery of knowledge through engaging in these knowledge-making practices. While this curriculum was developed to focus facilitation on engaging visitors to interactive science centers in the disciplinary practices of science, it has been broadened to include practices of all of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) disciplines and expand on the strategies for interactive science centers to include a wide range of informal learning environments. We have developed a four-session training module (approximately 8 hours) and bite-sized mini-modules (approximately 1-hour each) accompanied by improvisation training so you can pick the training model that works best for your museum.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (grant #1906320, #1906322). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Full Curriculum
Explore the 4-session curriculum that dives deep into what Practice-based Facilitation is and how to apply it in your museum.
PBF Bites
Don't have enough training time for the full curriculum? Check out our 1-hour bite-sized trainings that cover the key ideas of Practice-based Facilitation.
