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Just when I didn’t think I could squeeze anything more into my day, here I am at 10:30 pm on duty in the residence, having finally started writing my report cards,\u00a0after a busy day of teaching, planning and meetings. and I’ve managed to squeeze in my first ever google hangout – Design Thinking. \u00a0Welcome to the world of teaching as a residential Head of House.<\/p>\n
My head has been very busy since my first Cohort 21 Face-to-face, thinking of all the possibilities for my classes and my students. \u00a0Every time I write up a lesson on Edsby I find myself questioning its quality – am I asking my students the right questions? Are they walking away with the information I want them to?\u00a0How do I know they learned anything at all??? All questions that are racking my brain at night \u00a0– all questions that need my attention, and that’s where my action plan comes into play. \u00a0While I don’t have it all laid out, I have a better idea of what I should be focusing on just from a few conversations I’ve had with LCS colleagues and now Cohort 21 Google hangout colleagues. \u00a0 I’m looking forward to using the Design Thinking framework to tackle my question head on and come out with a focused approach that will hopefully improve my teaching and my students learning.<\/p>\n
I think for many educators we are often questioning how things can be improved both within our practice and within our classroom. However, I find it often stops there because of time or another more immediate issue and most often – I don’t know how to make those changes. \u00a0The little I’ve used and know about Design Thinking I’m seeing how it has already started to open up that dead end that I find myself running into. \u00a0It seems to tackle an issue and approach it from all angles causing you to think about it in a different perspective.<\/p>\n
Let the thinking begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-thinking","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}