Early childhood behaviour management training for preschool teachers through a digital game
WP3: Interactive Learning Modules – Branching Scenarios
WP Leader: Infinitivity Design Labs (France)
Project: PreschoolABA | 2023-1-IE01-KA220-SCH-000152387
Understanding and managing children’s behaviour is one of the most important responsibilities in preschool education. Yet it is also one of the most challenging. PreschoolABA set out to address this by developing a digital, evidence-based training experience that helps teachers confidently navigate behavioural situations through practice, reflection and play.
Work Package 3 (WP3), led by Infinitivity Design Labs (IDL) in France, focused on creating four interactive learning modules using branching narratives. These modules immerse teachers in realistic classroom scenarios grounded in the four functions of behaviour, offering a safe and engaging way to explore decision-making.
A New Way to Learn Behaviour Management
The design journey began with in-depth requirements elicitation. IDL, working closely with partners across Europe, conducted desk research, stakeholder interviews and surveys that revealed the everyday challenges faced by preschool teachers—especially those supporting children on the autism spectrum. These insights were transformed into six detailed educator personas, representing typical teacher experiences across consortium countries. These personas became the foundation for the narratives and decision points built into the modules.
To transform these insights into a learning tool, IDL proposed a robust technical stack capable of supporting multilingual content, non-linear storytelling and accessible user experience design. This structure ensured that educators from all participating countries could meaningfully engage with the modules.
Crafting Realistic Classroom Scenarios
Scenario development happened through a series of virtual ideation workshops. Partners collaboratively explored real-world classroom situations, proposing diverse incidents ranging from daily routines to complex behavioural episodes. These draft scenarios were then organised into a comprehensive storyboard created by IDL, serving as a blueprint for the entire digital experience.
IDL’s iterative creative problem-solving approach enabled continuous refining of the narrative and technical structure. Revisions flowed naturally as educators and experts tested the prototypes, highlighting what felt realistic, what needed clarification, and what could be improved for better engagement.
Testing, Improvement and Real Teachers’ Voices
The first prototypes were presented during the second Transnational Project Meeting in Nice. From there, partners shared the modules with preschool teachers and specialists for structured pilot testing. Real teacher feedback played a central role, prompting improvements in decision pathways, instructional clarity, and user experience.
Multilingual Access for Europe’s Educators
To support implementation across Europe, IDL developed a translation template and coordinated translations into all partner languages, while also producing additional Ukrainian and Albanian versions. This ensured consistency across cultural and linguistic contexts and expanded the reach of the training.
The Final Result
The outcome is a suite of four interactive modules—now combined into one cohesive branching scenario experience—designed to empower preschool teachers to understand, anticipate and respond to challenging behaviour. The modules invite teachers to learn through doing, experimenting and reflecting, all within a safe digital space.
Explore the full interactive learning experience:
https://project-spaces.eu/learningcontent/paba/story.html
