About MTD

The pace of change in the economy, society and technology, is demanding teachers, to cope with complex problems in their everyday practice and therefore they require new set of skills, such as innovation, empathy, design, creativity, problem solving, co-creation. Hence, teacher need to develop new competences and ways of thinking to be able to face those new educational challenges, among the approaches that have been found relevant to cope with the new teaching and learning scenarios is the incorporation of design in the educational field, in other words, seen the teaching practice as a design profession. A key element of this transformation of teachers becoming teachers as designers (TasD) is to work on their mindset, a mindset that makes them capable of addressing multi-faceted problems.

Our objectives

Objective 1

Create a TasD mindset Framework to provide a complete picture of the role of teachers as designers within VET, which has been co-designed with teachers from Denmark, Spain, and Finland.

Objective 2

Use design thinking and co-creation to design educational interventions that can foster the mindsets defined in the TasD mindsets framework

Our activities

The project includes five main activities:

A1:

Identification and description of ways of thinking associated with a design mindset for teachers

A2:

Run a full design thinking process to generate learning activities to develop teacher design mindsets

A3:

Co-create with teachers design principles to create a professional development program to foster teachers as designer mindsets

A4:

Dissemination and communication

Expected Outcomes

TasD mindset framework

Teacher as designer mindsets framework: a clear description of the competences and mindsets of a teacher as designer

Learning activities

Learning activities to develop teachers as designer mindset: tested interventions that can support the development of the design mindset

Design training activities

List of design principles to design training activities within the field of teacher as design for professional development within VET