Construction of the Educational Model of Vocational College Students' Career Planning Based on Design Thinking

Design thinking is an integrated thinking method with mature concepts, methods and tools, which is widely used in the field of education. Career planning education includes five aspects: Self-analysis, Environmental Analysis, Goal Establishment, Strategy Development, Evaluation and Modification, which fits well with the five steps of Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test of design thinking. This study introduces the design thinking method and structure into the curriculum, puts forward the teaching activity model and strategy based on design thinking, and makes an empirical study on the strategy. The study mainly adopts the experimental research method and evaluates the effect of the teaching mode by comparing the improvement of the career planning ability of learners between the experimental group and the control group. The results show that the teaching mode based on design thinking has a positive effect on promoting students' career planning ability.