Intended End User: Teacher, Teacher Educator
Age Group: Upper Primary; Lower Secondary
School Curriculum: Maths; Science; Social, Physical & Health Education; Social & Environment Science; Arts; Business Studies; Applied Science
Themes and Topics: Collective Action; Futures Thinking; Information & Knowledge; Citizenship; Pedagogy Approaches
Duration: 20 hours
Type of Resource: Assessment, Guidelines & Notes, Project, Online Tool
Keywords: Design Thinking, Co-Design Projects, Creative Problem Solving, Formative Assessment, Procedural Knowledge
Languages: English, Dutch
Description
The Your Turn guidebook is a step-by-step instruction for teachers (in training) to create and implement their own design projects for upper primary and lower secondary education. It provides an overview of the variety of tools for Co-design projects with children, a step-by-step guidance, advice on the approach and striking examples. Performing these kind of projects, students gain experience with designing around appealing themes from their daily life.
The guidebook is based on the results of the research project Co-design with Kids, funded by Dutch research organizations NRO and NWO. In this project researchers from Delft University of Technology and a large consortium of scientific and public partners have collaborated with teachers and pupils. This guide provides support for building co-design processes that benefit both designers and the participants.
How to use this resource
This Your Turn teacher guidebook and additional online resources provide teachers with a pedagogical approach that systematically guides students through the design process to frame problems and develop creative solutions. This framework can be used in conjunction with the sub-themes of Sustainability Citizenship to develop the green competencies of students with links to the wider community and external stakeholders.
The Your Turn guidebook provides the framework and tools for applying the design thinking pedagogy to the classroom, with teachers required to bring their own curricula and contextual relevance to the student experience. The Your Turn approach supports and requires an interdisciplinary approach and the engagement with external stakeholders.
Used as part of pre- or in-service teacher professional learning workshops, the guidebook and additional resources are designed to facilitate collaborative development and synthesis of knowledge to varied contexts and curricular focus.
With the Your Turn guidebook, resources and guidance is provided for formative feedback and assessment of students are part of the design thinking process. These can be developed by teachers to apply to their own context. Potential for learning from other assessment-focused resources from the Synapses portal.
The Your Turn guidebook and additional resources are well suited to being the focus of a collaborative workshop experience for teachers, building communities of practice, capacity and agency amongst Synapses participants, and promoting student-centred and place-based approaches
The resources
To support formative assessment of students throughout the Design Thinking process, the Making Design Learning Visible is a useful resource.
Additional resources and Your Turn materials are available on two websites: www.tudelft.nl/codesignkids (focusing on designers) and www.tudelft.nl/en/yourturn (focusing on teachers)
Learning Outcomes
- Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote student Sustainability Citizenship
- Reflect on practice and examine national curricula to identify opportunities to promote Sustainability Citizenship in interdisciplinary ways and engage with external stakeholders.
- Collaboratively synthesise the knowledge, tools and frameworks to create educational materials and lessons plans adapted to their own local context
- Develop and apply assessment criteria to evaluate Sustainability Citizenship in students.
- Through workshop activities and communities of practice, build capacity and agency as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.
Green Competencies
- Embodying Sustainable Values: Valuing Sustainability; Supporting Fairness; Promoting Nature
- Embracing Complexity in Sustainability: Systems Thinking; Critical Thinking; Problem Framing
- Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Futures Literacy; Adaptability; Exploratory Thinking
- Acting for Sustainability: Political Agency; Collective Action; Individual Initiative
Creative Commons
The Your Turn for the Teacher – Guide Book and other Your Turn resources were created by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and shared here under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International Licence.
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