The Cardboard Classroom: A Design-Thinking Guide for Elementary Teachers (The best Educators resource for design thinking with comprehensive examples.) - Softcover

Doug Robertson; Jennifer Borgioli Binis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1952812550 ISBN 13: 9781952812552

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2022

Synopsis

A design-minded teacher facilitates learning that is flexible, creative, and collaborative―with a healthy mix of critical thinking, trial and error, failure, and success. In The Cardboard Classroom, authors Doug Robertson and Jennifer Borgioli Binis offer practical guidance and sample projects developed from Robertson’s authentic classroom experiences to help you find space for this engaging approach to instruction in your daily practice.

Elementary educators will:

• Discover why design thinking is more the identity of the teacher than instructional strategy
• Learn how design-minded teaching advances student learning and improves engagement
• Study real-world examples and experiences of the design process in action
• Receive comprehensive examples of projects you can utilize and adapt to fit your classroom’s needs
• Obtain reproducible tools and templates to enhance your understanding of the material

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Lighting and Thunder
Part 1: Overview of Design-Minded Teaching
Chapter 1: What Does Design-Minded Thinking Mean?
Part 2: Design-Minded Teaching in Practice
Chapter 2: Define―What’s the Problem? What’s the Goal?
Chapter 3: Design―How Can We Solve the Problem?
Chapter 4: Build―How Do We Create a Solution?
Chapter 5: Test and Revise―What Happens When We Try Out the Solution and Respond to Data?
Chapter 6: Reflect―What Did We Learn?
Chapter 7: Putting It Into Practice
Part 3: Becoming a Design-Minded Teacher
Chapter 8: Specific Designs
Chapter 9: Assessment in the Design-Minded Classrooms
Chapter 10: Cure-Alls, Buy-Ins, and Trust
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author

Doug Robertson (he/him) is a fifth-grade teacher for the Gresham-Barlow School District in northern Oregon, where he has been teaching for the past seven years. In his seventeen years of teaching, he has taught fourth grade for Gresham-Barlow; third and fourth grades in southern Oregon; third, fourth, and sixth grades at Kaleiopuu Elementary School in Hawaii on the island of Oahu; and third grade in southern California. These schools include predominantly low-income neighborhoods, military populations, multiple language households and classrooms, and a wide range of diverse student backgrounds.

Doug has run districtwide professional developments on using technology and making in the classroom, as well as keynoting and presenting at the IntegratED PDX conference multiple years in a row. He has also presented at multiple CUE conferences on using the Google Suite in the classroom and how to be the best weird teacher you can be. He also presented on making and using puppets in the classroom at ISTE.

Doug has written three education books previous to this one―He’s the Weird Teacher, THE Teaching Text (You’re Welcome), and A Classroom of One―and one novel, The Unforgiving Road.

Doug Robertson earned his bachelor of arts in multi-subject education from the University of the Pacific (go Tigers!) in 2003.

Jennifer Borgioli Binis (she/her) is president of Schoolmarm Advisors, a freelance editing, fact-checking, and research service for education authors and publishers. A former middle school special education teacher and professional development provider, she facilitated large- and small-scale audit and design projects with and for schools, districts, and states. After almost twenty years of giving teachers words, she now helps teachers put their own words out into the world. She is published in the field of gifted, special, and middle-level education and is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, History of Education Society, and ASCD. She received her bachelor’s degree in education from SUNY Fredonia and her master’s degree from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1952812550
• ISBN 13: 9781952812552
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 224