Hello and welcome to CreativeDesignCycle.com. You will find a summary of the topics covered during my training workshops on this page.
Click here to learn more about the story behind the Creative Design Cycle Framework.
1: You will get familiar with the phases and habits of design.
Designers are creative problem solvers and have developed special ways of working over the years that allow them to create innovative products and services that people love.
The remarkable thing is that anyone can learn to think and see the world as a designer to become more creative and motivate their students to innovate like a designer.
Phases of Design
Habits of Design
2: You will get access to a library of design curricula.
Get access to curricula to support project-based learning experiences in your school.
There are three types of design curricula:
- Methods are procedures that designers follow to complete the four phases of a design process.
- Activities provide students with an opportunity to practice the methods of design through hands-on experiences.
- Lessons give students (and teachers) the content knowledge required to learn a given topic while simultaneously creating something successfully.
Click here to see one lesson example you can try with your students immediately.
Here are some Creative Design Cycle curriculum resources:
| Name tag for a friend | Home for an animal | Organize a desk. | Develop your creative identity. |
| What’s good design? | Chair for grandpa | Design for a cause | Our digital city |
| League of friends – Empathise, design, and code | Beautiful mind maps | Research what the tech is ____? | Mapping empathy |
If you are interested, contact me to access the library of design curricula.
3: Receive guidance and role-play lesson examples.
After learning the basics of applying design thinking in the classroom, you get to try out example lessons and role-play what teaching these lessons would be like.
If interested, contact me for a workshop or a training session.
4: Learn tools that will help you plan your lessons.
Once you are comfortable teaching design or utilizing some of the design methods in your classes, the next step is to learn how to integrate design in the planning of your own creative learning units.
Here are some of the Creative Design Cycle Curriculum Plan Tools to help you plan school projects that integrate design and making:
| Creative Design Compass | Creative Portfolio Template | Creative Journey Map | Connect to Envision |
| Gripes, Dreams & Wonders | Creative Target Matrix | Vision Board | Creative Curriculum Collaboration Template |
| Perfect Design Brief | Creative Lesson Planner | Lists of Lists | Design Challenge Template |
Click here to see how the Creative Journey Map, one of the curriculum planning tools, can help infuse creativity in your lessons.
If interested, contact me to inquire about training on using these tools to integrate creative design into your curricula.
Learn more about how design can help schools become more creative.
If you are unsure if that can help your students, you may find it helpful by reading this article I wrote for Inoveduc Magazine. In this article, I share supporting evidence on the benefits of introducing design methods in the school curriculum.