Student Agency Through Design Thinking and the Genius Hour

Niko Lewman

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About the talk

Through this workshop with PYP Coordinator and educator, Niko Lewman, dive into how you might embed design thinking principles into your teaching. Create authentic learning experiences and integrate transdisciplinary skills directly into your core curriculum. Together, discover this non-linear, iterative process that seeks to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test changes in your teaching and learning processes.

Key objectives

Analyse areas where you may support more student agency within the Genius Hour
Acquire frameworks to implement design thinking in your classroom
Investigate how your classroom can benefit from maker space and Genius Hour to harbour innovation and resilience

Speaker

Niko Lewman

PYP Coordinator, Grade 2 Teacher, MYP Design teacher, International School Mainfranken

Disclaimer - This event is organised independently of and not endorsed by the IB. Toddle’s events and webinars are organised to enable an exchange of practices and ideas within the educator community and are not a replacement for official IB workshops. Views and opinions expressed by the speakers are their personal views and should not be construed as official guidance by the IB. Please seek assistance from your school’s IB coordinator and/or refer to official IB documents before implementing shared ideas and strategies in your classroom.

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Niko Lewman

Niko Lewman is a passionate PYP teacher. In his 21 years of teaching, he has taught young learners from the wonderful, inquisitive age of Early Years to the curious independent enquirers of Grade 5. He enjoys this challenge as it broadens his knowledge and experience on how the PYP curriculum evolves across grade levels. Niko is a lifelong learner and has recently started to study towards a coaching degree. In addition, he leads workshops virtually and in-person. His 2021 professional challenge is to start his own YouTube channel and it is a work in progress. You can learn more about Niko, here.

Classroom Strategies, Curriculum Planning, Inquiry-based Learning

Student Agency Through Design Thinking and the Genius Hour

Through this workshop with PYP Coordinator and educator, Niko Lewman, dive into how you might embed Design Thinking principles into your teaching. Create authentic learning experiences and integrate transdisciplinary skills directly into your core curriculum. Together, discover this non-linear, iterative process that seeks to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test changes in your teaching and learning processes.