Instructional Planning: A Guide for Teachers

by Reiser, Robert A.; Dick, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780205166145
• ISBN10: 0205166148
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Students in teacher education programs are regularly required to plan lessons and instructional units, but often receive little instruction on how to do so. This book (initially published under the title Planning Effective Instruction) is designed to teach students how to plan instruction and develop effective lesson plans. In particular, the book focuses on how to identify instructional goals and objectives, plan instructional activities, choose instructional media, develop assessment tools, and evaluate and revise instructional plans. Most students appreciate the systematic way in which the authors present the material and quickly see that the principles espoused in the book were employed in its creation. Thus, most students become enthusiastic about employing systematic planning practices in their own teaching.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

A Systematic Approach to Instructional Planning: An Introduction

Effective Instruction: The End Result of Systematic Planning

Key Principles Underlying Systematic Instructional Planning

Does This Process Limit the Way You Go about Teaching?

Are You Really Likely to Use This Planning Process?

Identifying Instructional Goals

Characteristics of Instructional Goal Statements

How Instructional Goals Are Established

Uses of Instructional Goals

Sources to Help You Identify Instructional Goals

Student Characteristics and Instructional Goals

Identifying Objectives

Components of Objectives

Sample oOjectives

Domains of Learning

Deriving Objectives from Goals

Limiting the Number of Objectives

Uses of Objectives

Short Forms of Objectives

Student Characteristics and Objectives

Prerequisite Skills

Identifying Students' Prerequisite Skills

Planning Instructional Activities

Motivating Students

Informing Students of Objectives

Helping Students Recall Prerequisites

Presenting Information and Examples

Providing Practice and Feedback

Summarizing the Lesson

Instructional Activities and the Domains of Learning

Sequencing Instructional Activities

Other Types of Instructional Activities

Instructional Activities for Different Types of Students

Strategies for Planning Instructional Activities

Describing Your Activities in Writing: The Lesson Plan

Examples of Lesson Plans

Choosing Instructional Media

Practicality of Media

Student Characteristics

Media and Instructional Activities

Choosing Media

Computers in Instruction

Developing Assessment Tools

Who Develops Assessment Tools?

Matching Assessment Items to Objectives

Assessment Tools for the Various Domains of Learning

Guidelines for Developing Assessment Tools

Pencil and Paper Assessment Tools

Alternative Assessment Tools

How Is an Assessment Tool Developed?

Implementing Instruction

Mastery Learning: One Approach to Implementation

Planning for Mastery Learning

Results of Using Mastery Learning

Alternative Teaching Approaches

Revising Instruction

Data that Should be Gathered

Steps in Analyzing Data

Revising Your Instructional Plans

Revising Instruction: An Example

Summary and Concluding Thoughts

Key Principles underlying the Systematic Planning Process

The Adaptability of the Process

Glossary

Bibliography

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