Design Thinking: A Creative Teaching Practice

Design Thinking is an ideology and a process; it’s all about solving complex problems in a user-centric way. It was created as a way of taking the processes and approaches that designers use and applying them to problems that designers don’t typically encounter. This approach is been widely used in the food and healthcare industry even in the design field or any field where the consumers and their needs are at the core. Various studies showed design thinking as an effective instructional methodology to develop students' creativity, innovation, collaboration, and non-linear problem-solving skills, among the 21st-century skills. In a typical classroom scenario, the teacher asks students questions accepting a ‘right answer’ from them without giving any importance to the creative and holistic development of the students. NEP 2020 primarily focuses on the conceptual understanding of the students. It is a teacher’s responsibility to provide students with an interactive classroom environment for developing 21st-century skills and competencies among them. The author’s ubiquitous goal is to present Design Thinking as an effective and creative teaching practice.