COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FIELD ELC. 8 (DESIGN THINKING STRATEGIES IN PRIMARY SCHOOL)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SNE 5021 FIELD ELC. 8 (DESIGN THINKING STRATEGIES IN PRIMARY SCHOOL) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Elementary Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NILÜFER ATMAN USLU

Offered to

Elementary Teacher Education

Course Objective

This course aims to develop pre-service teachers' competence in applying design-based learning processes in the context of primary school education and to support them in designing learning and teaching processes that encourage creativity and collaborative problem solving. By combining the theoretical and practical aspects of design-based learning, we focus on developing original and curriculum-appropriate design projects that encourage pre-service teachers to address real-world challenges through an iterative process.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explaining the theoretical foundations of design-based learning and its benefits for primary school education.
2   Developing design projects appropriate for primary school curriculum.
3   Creating lesson plans that integrate design-based learning.
4   Creating assessment tools that measure students' creativity, collaboration and problem-solving competencies for design-based learning processes.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Design-Based Learning
2 Design-Based Learning and its Applications in Primary Schools
3 Design Thinking: Empathizing and Identifying
4 Design Thinking: Ideate
5 Design Thinking: Prototyping
6 Design Thinking: Testing and Iteration
7 Developing a Design Thinking-Based Educational Project
8 General review, course evaluation, midterm exam
9 Activating Thinking Processes in Design-Based Learning
10 Collaborative Work: Preparing a Design-Based Learning Lesson Plan
11 Collaborative Work: Preparing a Design-Based Learning Lesson Plan
12 Assessment in Design-Based Learning
13 Project Presentations and Feedback
14 Project Presentations and Feedback
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Koh, J. H. L., Chai, C. S., Wong, B., Hong, H. Y., Koh, J. H. L., Chai, C. S., ... & Hong, H. Y. (2015). Design thinking and education (pp. 1-15). Springer Singapore.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Expository speech, question answer, discussion, cooperative learning, presentation, show and tell

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students are evaluated by means of learning outcomes, mid-term and final project.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is mandatory for 70% of the classes.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

atmanuslu@gmail.com
nilufer.atmanuslu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 09:00-09:40

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 13 2 26
Preparation for final exam 13 2 26
Project Assignment 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 106

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19
LO.1323
LO.2434
LO.3333
LO.444

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