Launch of new education

Challenge. I am a professor of labor law at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. My  challenge is to improve the learning method of my students since my classes are in the first  year. Being a public university, I have students of all social levels and the truth is that not all  students are prepared to begin such deep studies. Their academic standards really need to  improve. My classes consist of a period of six months and it is the time I have to be able to  adapt them not only to the university but also to the introduction of law. I will focus on trying  to figure out what teaching and learning styles are effective for my students.

Selection. I am thinking of trying various design thinking challenges for my students and found  that the most suitable tool to apply is the learning launch tool. Since my goal is to discover  teaching and learning styles that are effective for my students, I can use the learning launch  tool to quickly experiment and test an idea.

Application. I focused on discovering what are the problems that lead my students to not  understand the lessons. Finally, I was able to determine that most concepts, require prior  mastery of civil law. For example, they cannot easily learn the rights of a worker if they do not  know that it is a right in itself. Because of this discovery, I made sure that before introducing  new concepts, I teach them the prior knowledge in that specific lesson. I stopped assuming  they already know it, because they should have learned it in their previous academic years.  Whether they can still remember it or not, the lesson always begins with the review of learning  the concepts needed for that specific lesson. I also established that all the students must go  together on class. Before moving on to the next concept, they must first master the current  lesson. I also be more opened up for them. After each session, I give them a free consultation  time where they can ask me whatever they want to. And I said to them that they can have any  mistakes… this is the time to learn, we all can ask something wrong, and will be ok.

I also focused on discovering the teaching styles that are most effective for my students. This  tested my assumption that when a concept is related to my students' everyday lives, they can  easily remember it and can easily understand the lesson. The key is to teach them the real life  applications of that specific lesson. Students kept asking where all these lessons can be applied  in their lives, but when students know where to apply them, they become more interested in  learning. Law is a beautiful tool that is used all the time in our daily lives. when we take a bus,  when we pay our taxes, when we hire our cell phone. And this is very important for them to  know. With these discoveries, I had several meetings with teachers from secondary schools  and we tried to see how they could gradually transfer different concepts to the students.  These techniques have been so effective that they are applied today to all seniors prior to  college.

Insight. Without the learning teaching tool, my guess for my students will remain a guess, and  thats it. By applying this learning startup tool, I was able to test all my assumptions and  determine what works and what doesn't. The goal is to identify the best teaching method that  works for my students. I will never be able to improve on your achievements because I did not  try to do something that can challenge this problem. If we don't try to do different things the  problems will still be there. As Jeanne said in one of the first lessons of this course ... things are

there to be discovered, they are waiting for us. I understand that this is what design thinking is  all about.

Approach. It is the best way to deal with these types of problems. This new experience that I  was able to carry out with the different teachers has allowed us all to raise the academic level  of the different institutions, beyond the personal learning of each one of us.

