Season 2, Episode 6: Dr. Todd Wass - Problem Based Learning and Design Thinking
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As an expert in design thinking, problem-based learning, school innovation, and curriculum and instruction, Todd uses his skills to teach design thinking and PBL to novices learners while pushing the boundaries of what is possible in education. As a project manager, he uses his ethnographic, observation, research and empathetic skills to create opportunities for student success.
Todd has seventeen years of independent school experience as a middle school teacher, department head, and coach. In his current role at TCS, Todd has helped to create the middle grades program, developed immersive project-based learning for the curriculum, created community partnerships, and the capstone for the eighth grade: social entrepreneurship. Todd has presented at regional, national, and international conferences on current trends in curriculum and instruction – design thinking, problem and project-based learning, and student-centered learning.
Here are links to the resources mentioned in our conversation with Dr. Todd Wass about Girls’ Education.
Connect with Todd on LinkedIn, Twitter, and through email at twassconsulting@gmail.com.
Read: Todd’s research Student’s experiences of design thinking and distributed scaffolding in a middle school social studies classroom.
Read: School Class and School Knowledge by Jean Anyon.
Read: Aligning the Curriculum by Allan Glatthorn.
Read: Stamped from the Beginning and Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Read: NAIS Trendbook.
Read: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
Website: d.School and d.School Teaching and Learning Yearbook 2019-2020.
Read: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning.
Listen: Planet Money Podcast
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