Overall Instructor Rating: Exemplary
Ratings explanation:
- Exemplary - A model answer in almost every way (this is given out very rarely).
- Satisfactory - Very well done; you've met the expectations of the assignment. There are some minor problems, so read my feedback well.
- Marginal Pass - You pass, but there are lots of issues to consider. Read my feedback very carefully and be sure you understand the points/issues I raise.
- Not satisfactory, redo and resubmit - The assignment was not completed appropriately. I am concerned that you do not understand the process well enough yet. To get credit for the assignment, you need to redo it, most probably on another topic. Read and consider my feedback very carefully before redoing.
Instructor's Overall Feedback:
Excellent job. You really nailed this!
The purpose of this activity is to design a specific lesson based on the lesson objectives identified in one of your unit instructional curriculum maps (ICMs). This IDA is designed to give you practice in planning lesson based on Gagne's events of instruction (see Dick, Carey, and Carey, chapter 8).
Complete the instructional strategy planning sheet below for one lesson of your choice. Preferably, this is a lesson that you identified during the unit design analysis. However, you can choose any lesson you wish. As outlined by Dick, Carey, and Carey, it may be helpful to organize the events of instruction in the following major groups or components: Pre-instructional activities, Content presentation, Learner participation, Assessment, Follow-through activities.
Your instructional plan should emphasize materials-centered instruction. That is, you should consider resources other than a live instructor for the delivery of the lesson. As you consider possible media, also consider the affordances, or special characteristics, that various media possess.
Instructional Strategy Planning Sheet
Write the instructional objectives of your lesson here (it can be more than one):
Your final response:
Given a problem, SWBAT demonstrate the ability to create conditional statements in a scripting language to solve that problem.
The instructor's feedback to this step:
Well stated objective.
Enter your instructional plan for each of the instructional components. Also indicate your media choice for each instructional component.
Instructional Component |
Instructional Plan |
Media Choice |
1. Pre-instructional activities
- a. Motivating the learners/gaining their attention
- b. Informing the learners of the lesson objectives or purposes
- c. Informing the learner of what they already need to know to be successful in this lesson (i.e. prerequisite skills)
2. Content presentation
- a. Presenting the content to be learned (i.e. stimulus material)
- b. Guiding the learners as they are presented with the content
3. Learner participation
- a. Giving the learner opportunites for practice (i.e. eliciting the performance)
- b. Giving the learner feedback during practice
4. Assessment
- Tests and other assessments to see if anything has been learned as a result of this lesson
5. Follow-through activities
- a. Memory aids for retention
- b. Activities to help learners transfer their learning to other contexts
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Your final response:
- Pre-instructional activities
- Discuss the importance of dynamic content on web pages and show how conditional statements in
scripts can trigger events on the page.
- Describe that the goal of this lesson is to understand and be able to use conditional
statements in scripts to do decision making.
- Explain that prior knowledge of the Document Object Model and assigning variables in the
scripting language used are expected.
- Content presentation
- Distribute printouts that show/explain conditional statements and examples of code.
- Demonstrate if/then/else, for, and while logic statements in pseudocode. Then demonstrate the
if/else, for, while, do/while, and case statements in javascript while explaining how they relate
to the 3 types of logic statements. Show how to solve a word problem through scripting with
conditional statements
- Learner participation
- Give students various problems that can be solved through conditional statements.
- Check students solutions to problem and show them an example solution.
- Assessment
- Suggest a real life scenario (i.e. How an elevator that moves between floors in a building determines which floor to go to and which direction to move) that involves decision making for students to model. Test students solutions individually.
- Follow-through activities
- Allow students to keep handouts and notes from class.
- Give students a homework project to complete.
The instructor's feedback to this step:
Very solid design. Good attention to each of Gagne's events of instruction.
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Your final response:
- Pre-instructional activities
- Content presentation
- Teacher, Handouts, Book, whiteboard or laptop w/projector
- Learner participation
- Handouts, Book, Computers
- Assessment
- Follow-through activities
- Handouts, Book, Computer, Class web site
The instructor's feedback to this step:
Good use of media.
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Provide a rationale for your media choices. How do the media you have selected support the instructional plan you have designed? Do the affordances of the media you've selected match the instructional strategy and support student learning?
Examples of media affordances:
- Video: dynamic representation of people, social situations, psychomotor tasks, etc.
- Computer simulation: dynamic representation of concepts and principles
- Computer spreadsheets: dynamic representation of numeric relationships
- Computer databases: dynamic representation of categorical relationships
Your final response:
Computers are the main media used for this lesson. Hands-on learning is required to grasp these concepts. The book, handouts, and class web site provide a supplement (for reference) to the teacher's demonstrations and lecture. Fortunately, these concepts can still be taught without a computerized classroom. However, the demonstrations and immediate testing of the students attempts to formulate conditional statements can not be easily accomplished with out the use of computer equipment.
The instructor's feedback to step 4:
Very good rationales.
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