How to apply Design Thinking in lesson planning?

The project team designs a two-phase design-thinking curriculum to support the delivery of pedagogy courses. The two phases run simultaneously that mark with five design-thinking skills. This is based on a framework that bears two features: 1) dialogue and authentic teaching materials, 2) experimentation and experience in successive of creative productions (Sharples et al., 2014). 

In the problem phase, students are guided to ‘empathise’ and ‘define’ how a certain strategy is planned by exercising pedagogical judgement, in a context of learning and teaching that some problems about teaching have to be sorted out to inform the direction of planning a lesson. In the production phase, students are involved in a full design thinking process for completing an innovative lesson plan, by practicing three more skills, i.e. ‘ideate’, ‘prototype’ and ‘test’.

Reference List

Sharples, M., Adams, A., Ferguson, R., Mark, G., McAndrew, P., Rienties, B., ... & Whitelock, D. (2014). Innovating pedagogy 2014: Open University Innovation Report 3. The Open University.