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:
I think you are ready to do this for real now. Nice job!
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:
SWBAT demonstrate how to customize text with text boxes in one slide.
SWBAT demonstrate how to customize text with Word Art in one slide.
SWBAT demonstrate how to customize backgrounds with fill effects in one slide.
SWBAT demonstrate how to customize backgrounds with images in one slide.
The instructor's feedback to this step:
These are well written objectives. Nice job.
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:
1a.Discuss the need for an effective tool for use in parent communication, sharing ideas with colleagues and student instruction. Emphasize that multimedia tools are being increasingly used and thus can be helpful in getting and holding the attention of your audience.
1b. Describe that the goal of the lesson is to introduce how to create PowerPoint presentations that go beyond the use of templates to customization of slides. Explain that this will be done in a step-by-step process addressing each component separately.
1c. Explain that experience in selecting and formatting text is expected.
Explain that experience in saving images from the internet or those scanned in is expected.
2a&b Facilitate the viewing of a "finished product" PowerPoint presentation that contains examples of all the components the students will be expected to produce, pointing out each component as it occurs in the presentation.
Distribute a teacher prepared student guide that enables the student to work through the process of creating customized slides in a step-by-step manner, giving specific directions for each component that the student will be required to produce. . Have the students follow along as the instructor gives a brief demonstration of the procedures within the student guide on the projector screen. Tell them everyone will have the chance to work through the guided steps on their computers in a few moments. (have students either move to the front of the class or turn off their monitors to enhance student focus.}
3a.& b Have the students move to their computers. Instruct them to now work through their student guides. Circulate through the room providing individual assistance as needed, making comments to the group in general when a question or point arises that would benefit everyone.
4a. Ask the students to create 4 PowerPoint slides as follows:
*one slide demonstrating the use of a customized backgound using color and fill effects
*one slide dmonstrating the use of a customized background using an image as the background
*one slide demonstrating the use of customized text using formatted text as well as formatted textboxes
*one slide demonstrating the use of customized text using Word Art.
5a.Let the student keep the student guide in order to review the steps when using PowerPoint in the future.
Assign another out of class activity in which the students must produce a PowerPoint presentation that they would actually use to teach their studetns, communicate with parents, or communitcate ideas to colleagues. This presentation should incorporate the skills learned in this lesson.
The instructor's feedback to this step:
Good, instruction seems to align to assessment which then goes back and aligns to the objectives.
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Your final response:
1a. Teacher guided discussion with class input.
1b. Teacher
1c. Teacher
2a & b. Teacher; PowerPoint presentation;
computer, screen, infocus projector, student guide
3a & b. Student guide; computer; teacher
4a. Teacher; computer
5a. Student guide; computer
The instructor's feedback to this step:
Good
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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:
Instructional media used in this lesson is a balance of teacher guided instruction, software demonstration and students independently working their way through a step-by-step student guide. With any software there are numerous steps, screens and clicks to be used. The use of viewing a finished project on how it should look, as well as a demonstration of how to create each component gives the student a visual example of what they are working toward. Even after a demonstration it is difficult to remember all of the steps or the sequence of the steps. The student guide gives them a textual reference to work through and refer back to as they practice the skills independently. This guide can also be saved for reference in future projects.
The instructor's feedback to step 4:
Good
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