An Expertly Written Guidebook to Teaching Design at All Levels Teaching Design provides a practical foundation for Teaching about and through design.
Examples in Teaching Design span the Design disciplines and draw on Davis\'s experience in Teaching seminars for College faculty, graduate courses for Design students seeking academic careers, and workshops for K-12 Teachers converting Their Classrooms into centers for innovation..
Davis also discusses the nature of contemporary problems and Teaching strategies that are well matched to growing complexity, rapid technological change, and increased demand for interdisciplinary engagement.
Sections on assessment make the case for performance-based activities that provide credible evidence of student learning.
An inventory of pedagogical strategies suggests approaches to learning that serve both College professors and K-12 Teachers who want to actively engage students in critical and creative thinking.
The book addresses writing objectives and learning outcomes that succeed in the counting-and-measuring culture of institutions but also meet the demands of a twenty-first-century education.
Davis\'s extensive experience in education offers a detailed path for the development of curricula.
And while K-12 educators are trained for the classroom, Their ability to transform Teaching and learning through Design is limited by a shortfall in professional literature.
While designers know Their disciplines, they frequently lack experience in constructing responsive curricula and pedagogies for rapidly evolving professions.
The exploding interest in Design and Design thinking calls for qualified Faculty members who are well prepared for a variety of institutional settings and content areas.
An Expertly Written Guidebook to Teaching Design at All Levels Teaching Design provides a practical foundation for Teaching about and through design
