Welcome to my new blog: Teaching with Design!
Design has always been important to me. Artists, architects, chefs and many other professions use design to create new products. Teaching, like these other professions, require practitioners to be the artists as they design new lessons, create new units, and build the foundations to structure new learning. I think it is the very purposeful manner, the design, a teacher uses that produce the difference in student learning. The planning and prep done beforehand all make the delivery of the lesson successful.
Design has been defined as follows:
Future posts will focus on specific aspects of design in the classroom, such as the environment and designing guided reading lessons. Hope you will come back and watch our classroom grow. Please don't hesitate to give suggestions and leave comments.
Design has always been important to me. Artists, architects, chefs and many other professions use design to create new products. Teaching, like these other professions, require practitioners to be the artists as they design new lessons, create new units, and build the foundations to structure new learning. I think it is the very purposeful manner, the design, a teacher uses that produce the difference in student learning. The planning and prep done beforehand all make the delivery of the lesson successful.
Design has been defined as follows:
- (noun) a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment, using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints;
- (verb, transitive) to create a design, in an environment (where the designer operates)[3]
Future posts will focus on specific aspects of design in the classroom, such as the environment and designing guided reading lessons. Hope you will come back and watch our classroom grow. Please don't hesitate to give suggestions and leave comments.
