Foundation Skills/Lesson planning as a design science/Teaching as a design science

Teaching as a design science
Diana Laurillard, in her book Teaching as a design science: Building pedagogical patterns for learning and technology, promotes the idea of teaching as a design science. Many think of teaching as an art (demanding both creativity and imagination), but Laurillard maintains that teachers also have a lot in common with other professionals, such as architects and engineers, who design systems and products. "Teaching is more like a design science because it uses what is known about teaching to attain the goal of student learning, and uses the implementation of its designs to keep improving them" (Laurillard, 2012).


 * Laurillard also says that teaching is a design science because it (i) aims to improve practice, and (ii) builds on the work of others, and all this in a principled manner.
 * Teachers continually design and test new strategies in their teaching, but often their experiences are not shared with other teachers.