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Journey Summary
In this session, you’ll continue exploring the Design Through Inquiry (DTI) framework as a model for authentic, student-centered instruction. You’ll engage in strategies that emphasize the use of evidence, empathy, and iteration to support meaningful learning. As you reflect on the design process, you’ll consider how each stage of the DTI model can be supported through formative assessment and how this approach can be applied to real-world learning in your own classroom.
Curriculum-framing Questions
Essential Question
- What inspires innovation?
Unit Question
- How can Design Through Inquiry inspire creativity and innovation?
- In what ways can data and argumentation impact the design process and learning?
Content Questions
- What is Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER)?
- How do you write a CER statement?
- How do you present a design solution authentically?
- What are the characteristics of the stages of a Design Through Inquiry experience?
- What assessment data can be used to make informed instructional decisions?
- What topics & standards connect your curriculum to the Design Through Inquiry process?
Introduction
The Design Through Inquiry (DTI) framework supports authentic, student-centered learning by embedding inquiry, empathy, and evidence into every stage of the design process. As students engage in real-world problem solving, they construct and present prototypes grounded in data from those most impacted. This process not only deepens content understanding but also cultivates transferable skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. By analyzing each phase of the DTI cycle and integrating formative assessment, instruction becomes more responsive, reflective, and aligned with how students learn best.
Theory Behind Practice
All eMINTS materials are grounded in research-based best practices in K-12 education.
Digging Deeper
Agenda
- Opener: My Dad’s an Alien
- DTI Experience Cont.
- Stuart Little DTI Lesson Plan
- DTI Planning with 5Es + 1
- Closer: CER & Doritos
Classroom Visit w/Students
Facilitators might assist with implementing a short design challenge with students. This may be an opening activity, culminating activity, or an activity intended to engage your students in questioning to guide inquiry. They could model or assist with an activity that promotes student questioning or with posing meditative questions to assist students in achieving higher levels of thinking.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
Have a reflective discussion with your trainer to explore more about your Design Through Inquiry experience plan and how you envision using it with students. Collaborate to explore how the DTI process aligns with your current instructional practices, and work together to select a topic and standards for their own DTI lesson.
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