Step 5. Teach the Course
Teaching the course you have just designed is often the only way teachers have of evaluating the effectiveness of the design. Using a lesson plan model helps keep you organized and in line with your design. Many of you do not use any type of lesson plan model, others may use a modified Madeline Hunter model.There are many other lesson planning models. Gagne, Briggs, and Wager (1992) identify nine Events of Instruction critical for designing lesson level instruction. The nine events are - Gaining Attention
- Informing the learner of the objective(s)
- Stimulate recall of prior learning
- Present the new material and
- Provide learning guidance
- Elicit performance
- Provide feedback
- Assess performance
- Enhance retention and transfer
Go to http://ide.ed.psu.edu/idde/9events.htm for a detailed overview of the events of instruction. The site provides concrete examples of each event! In any case, lesson planning models are useful in keeping you aware of each of the elements you need to move through as you teach a lesson. Again, most of this is almost intuitive to most teachers. We tend to know how to gain attention, link new information to previously learned information and so on. But using a lesson planning model does help even seasoned teachers design effective lessons, particularly when you are nervous about the new delivery medium.
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