Artistic Expression in an International Environment
At Hammurabi, we embrace design thinking and the Maker Education movement as a dynamic new way of thinking about teaching and learning.
Collaboration, Communication, and Respect
At the heart of Maker Education is design thinking, an educational process in which students are presented with a problem and then given the opportunity to collaboratively come up with solutions. They build and test their ideas, and evaluate what they did well and how they can improve next time. Design thinking helps students learn to communicate and collaborate as a group, and to respect each other’s ideas as they work towards a common goal. Students also develop concrete skills – construction, circuitry, robotics, or coding – to name a few.
Teachers are able to mix science, computer science, and art in interdisciplinary projects tied-in to their PYP unit themes.
Resiliency and a Growth Mindset
While engaging in the design-thinking process, students learn to fail and try again, thereby building resiliency and a growth mindset. Students also develop empathy by looking at problems through another’s eyes, such as designing and constructing prototypes of lights for people who do not have access to electricity.
Design in High School
Inquiry and problem-solving are at the heart of the Hammurabi high school Design program. It enables students to develop not only practical skills but also strategies for creative and critical thinking. Students use the holistic approach of the design cycle to solve problems in a range of disciplines, including product design, multimedia, and graphic design. The program is suitable for students who plan to study design or engineering in higher education as well as those who enjoy exploring and solving creative problems.
