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Instructional Design Activity: Unit Design
Overall Instructor Rating: Exemplary Ratings explanation:
Instructor's Overall Feedback: Excellent Unit-level analysis -- I think your team has nailed this!
My only suggestion is to do one of the following to make it crystal clear the learning outcome of each of your objectives: 1) add the "learned capability verb" (i.e. generate, demonstrate, etc.) to each of your objectives; or 2) at the end of each objective put in parentheses the learning outcome (i.e. problem-solving, rule-using, concept). Your verbs "maintain" and "create" are fine, but I just want to make sure
After you do so, email me and I'll take another look at your unit analysis, just to make sure that you don't have any learning hierarchy violations (i.e. problem-solving, rule-using, concept).
1. Restate one of the unit (enabling) objectives or goals you identified in your course ICM, or change topics and write a new unit objective. Click here to view your IDA on course design. This objective will become the terminal objective for your unit. Compare the use of the terms "terminal" and "enabling" here to the last IDA, when you were creating a course-level ICM. These terms are relative to the ICM on which you are working. An enabling objective in your course ICM becomes the terminal objective in a unit ICM. Then, an enabling objective in your unit ICM becomes your terminal objective in a lesson ICM. (Note: I interchange goal and objectives here because you may realize after further analysis that your objective identified in your course ICM was not clear or appropriate, which means that it is really a goal. After completing this IDA, you may need to rewrite your terminal objective for this unit.)
Be sure to include in your objective the learned capability verb that corresponds to one of Gagne's learning domains: Problem-solving (generate); Rule-using (demonstrate); concept (classify, identify); verbal information (state, recite, summarize); attitudinal (choose); psychomotor (execute). Your final response: Title: Be a “Pro” with IGPro
1. TWBAT independently create and customize a grade book, maintain roster, input grades, print needed student and class reports (progress, missing tasks, and spreadsheet) and export final grades to SASI, when provided with an IGPro Quick-Resource Reference Guide. The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step.
2. Identify the intellectual skill objectives for the lessons in the unit. Based on the instructional goal(s) and learning outcomes, conduct an subordinate skills analysis as described by Dick, Carey, and Carey in chapter 4. You are now beginning to breakdown what the learner needs to know in order to achieve the instructional goal. Each objective you generate can roughly be considered a lesson objective (as we will discuss in class, some lessons may have more than one objective; but there is no sense risking confusion on this point now.) Identify the 3-5 most critical parts of the unit (referred to as "lessons"). These should generally be limited to intellectual skills learning outcomes such as problem solving and relational rules. For some cases, there may be a need for an attitude learning outcome. (Note: the number of lessons will depend on your instructional problem and design. Add or eliminate lessons as you deem necessary). Write the lesson/enabling objectives below. A. Lesson1
Your final response: Title: Set-up and customization
Objective: TWBAT to independently create a grade book by importing student data to create class rosters and setting-up grading rules when provided with the IGPro Quick-Resource Reference Guide.
The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step. B. Lesson 2 Your final response: Title: Maintain Roster and Data Entry
Objective: TWBAT maintain class roster independently by adding new students, removing withdrawn students, adding new tasks and grades when provided with the IGPro Quick-Resource Reference Guide.
The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step.
C. Lesson 3 Your final response: Title: Reports Retrieving
Objective: TWBAT independently retrieve and print and/or email student and class reports (Class Roster, Missing Assignments, Class Spreadsheets, and Student Progress Reports) by selecting the appropriate options from the menu bar when provided with the IGPro Quick-Resource Reference Guide.
The instructor's feedback to step 4: No specific feedback given on this step.
D. Lesson 4 Your final response: Title: End-of-Term Reports and Exporting
Objective: TWBAT independently create End-of-Term reports by transferring their final grades, inputting teacher comments, conduct and effort grades, then exporting to SASI when provided with the IGPro Quick-Resource Reference Guide. The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step. 3. Identify supporting objectives from the verbal information and attitudinal domains. Identify these objectives using verbs such as "state, list, or summarize" for verbal information objectives and "choose" for attitudinal objectives. (If you have more than 2, just list those that best represent these other objectives. Be sure to include these objectives on your visual ICM to indicate which intellectual skills they support.) Your final response: 1. Teachers will state the definitions of grading rules, grade tables, special scores, tasks, and End-of-Term reports.
2. Teachers will choose to use the IGPro Quick-Resource Reference Guide. The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step. 4. Identify entry behaviors (also known as prerequisite skills). Entry behaviors are those skills and knowledge that you expect your students to have as they begin this unit. That is, you do not intend to teach these. Although you will undoubtedly have many objectives denoting entry behaviors, just list one example below (but be sure to include all entry behaviors on your instructional curriculum map). Your final response: TWBAT log on to local area network and find their grade book folder. The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step.
5. Draw an Instructional Curriculum Map (ICM) for the Unit An ICM visually represents the optimal sequence of these objectives. (Just think of it as a flowchart.) Draw the ICM in "top-down" fashion with the terminal objective (i.e. unit objective) at the top. Instructional events are designed top-down, though learners will ultimately experience the instruction bottom-up. If there is room in your ICM, include the full objectives, otherwise, just include the title. Entry behaviors should be drawn at the very bottom with a dotted line separating these from the other objectives just above. Click here for an example (generated with Inspiration). The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step.
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