30 design strategies and tactics
Appendix: Further information and examples
Index of strategies and tactics
Design Strategies
- Gradual change
- WYTIWYG
- Alignment
- Think of longer timescales for learning
- Take a constructivist approach to professional development (see ‘The Sandwich Model’)
- Materials-based professional development
- Use engineering methods
- Identify target groups
- Replacement units
- The Box Model
- Investigative app-based microworlds
Design tactics – teaching materials
- Focus on what the students are doing
- Control the ‘design load’ on teachers
- Exemplars communicate vividly
- Devise vivid representations
- Design for ‘role-shifting’
- Vary lesson styles
- Design lessons as drama
- ‘Common issues’ tables
- ‘Student work’ examples for critiquing
- Process-focused lessons
- Student guides