Wrap up my PLE Blog

Since it’s the end of this semester, I want to wrap up everything to summarize what I learned and my feeling about things I learned in this course.

First of all, the most impressive thing that I learned in this course is how creating your own ISD model based on an instructional design context. Although the process of creating my own ISD model is tough, but it’s pretty interesting. As for myself, the ADDIE model I learned from IDE 631 impressed me so much. The logic of ADDIE is very clear and it’s easy to follow and practice. Therefore, every time when I see other ISD model, I would like to compare it with ADDIE automatically. And if the new model I learn is lack of some aspects in ADDIE, I feel it’s not comprehensive and completed, and needs to make implementation. And then, when I create my own ISD model, I can see the shadow of ADDIE in it. But there are also some differences in it. In my model, I paid more attention to the communication and diffusion of different components, and these are what impressed me most from this course. Although my model is a more systematic process, I still see the connection and the influence between each component important. And each step in the model will make change and influence to the other ones. What I am very curious about creating this model is that how is will work in the real world. Since everything I create is based on what I learned form books and articles but very limited working experience. So, I am not sure whether it is practical and operational. I always think that the real practice is very important and sometimes I learn more and better in the real work rather than books.

When talking about the Blog PLE, I had a very struggling time up load something weekly. However, after the whole semester, when I look back what I did in my blog, I feel a kind of accomplishment, because I can see something really useful that I may forget soon if I didn’t put it here. Also, I can see the process that how I create my ISD model, and how my thoughts were changing. And everything in my PLE is done in a very casual way that makes no pressure to me. In sum, instructional design is a very interesting project that I do want to put my model into practice and then modify it as a valid and useful one.

My ID Model Final Framework

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Up date the fram work of my ID model

Here is my latest update ID Model

Model Exercise--Gerlach & Ely Model

Model name: Gerlach & Ely

Orientation: this model is considered to be prescriptive. It describes how a learning environment can be altered or constructed, in order to affect the variables in a certain way or bring about the desired outcome (Edmonds, 1944). This model is considered to be linear and systemic, because one the five decisions in the third step is changed, the other decisions will also be affected.

Knowledge Structure: it is a procedural model that gives a clear direction for teachers to follow when makes an instruction. The Gerlach & Ely model emphasizes how teaching can help students meet the objectives.

Expertise Level: this model is suitable for all levels of expertise to use. The users can be novice, intermediate, or expert.

Structure: this model is developed as a systematic approach to teaching and learning. It’s also a soft-system–based model.

Context: this model is suitable for K-12 classrooms setting or also higher education setting. However, it may not be as successful in a business or government setting.

Levels: this model is appropriate for the levels of unit, module, lesson and course.

Particular strengths of the model:
• Suitable for use by all levels of expertise.
• Offers a combination of both systemic and systematic approach that can be developed into a strategy for good teaching and learning.
• The five decisions of this model serve as a reminder to the important components that can be overlooked.

Particular weaknesses of the model:
• There’s no concrete way of analyzing the needs and the gap in performance.
• There’s no implementation that can help the teacher create better instruction.
• This model would not be successful in a business or government setting.

General opinions: the Gerlach and Ely model provides a basic and useful roadmap for good teaching and learning. It includes the basic and significant key point as a reminder for teachers to concern during their design. Both novice and veteran teachers can benefit from the experience of using this model.

My ID Model updated

well I till confused about how to upload a word document. I tried to upload it as a webpage, but the charts just piled up. So I just write the word discription here and find a way upload the frame work later.


Here is the introduction of my updated ID model.

Context

This model is used for teaching assistants (TA) training program for Foreign English teacher class which is a very popular course that teaches English as second language in elementary school in China. Teaching and learning English as second language is highly encouraged in elementary education. And on average, elementary schools in Beijing China start the Foreign English teacher class from the 3^rd grade. There is a phenomenon that Foreign English teacher class opening through every grade has become a trend that an increasing number of schools open this class to 1^st and 2^nd grade students. Then TA is needed for facilitating foreign English teacher’s teaching and students’ learning, due to the students’ low English competency. TA in this Foreign English teacher class plays a significant role which is like a communication bridge between the foreign teacher and the students. Since almost all of the TAs are student volunteers from colleges in Beijing who are lack of knowledge and experience about teaching and pedagogy, problems appeared up that influence the communication between teacher and students, also weaken the efficiency of teaching and learning. Therefore, an instructional design model is created for designing a well structured and arranged training program.

Model introduction

This model comprises mainly five portions that are Needs assessment, Specification of objectives, Design, Pilot and Evaluation. The first step needs assessment is to understand the communication between TA and other major relevant people (foreign teacher, head teacher and students). The purpose of this part is to figure out the problems in class and the gap between the TA’s current performance and their desired performance using the approach interview, observation and questionnaires.

After understanding the problems well, the designer will be able to figure out what the objective should be for this training program, which means that what outcome and performance the TA need to have.

Having clear objectives, designers need to consider about the instructional strategies, teaching resources, allocation of time and space, and how to group the learners. These five factors can be considered simultaneously and don’t necessarily in an ordered sequence. And it appears to be a systemic approach that when one of them is changed, the other factors in the group will also be affected.

The forth step is creating a pilot that means to adopt this design in a small group to see whether the prior five factors are well organized. If there’s need for any change and improvement, the designer should go back to the last step to make some implementation. If it is appropriate enough, the designer can go forward to do the evaluation.

The last step is the evaluation of the learners’ performance. It is a significant process to gather feedback from the learners and relevant stakeholders like the school manager, parents, and the English teaching office. And also, test whether the learners successfully achieved the objectives and instructional goals. The arrow running along the bottom of the model from the last box towards the first box represents a formative revision.

Evaluation -- Definition

Evaluation : evaluation is the process of examining certain objects and events in view of specified value standards for the purpose of making corrective or implementary decision.

Formative Evaluation: it is conducted to provide program implememtation. It's conducted during the program progress, and it's seeking for the improvement.

Summative Evaluation: it is conducted at the end of the whole program in order to make a judgment on the value of the program. It is more concerning about the outcome of the program.

Bloom and Krathwohl's taxonomy

When I considered about the Complexity of the tree dimensions of the objectives, there are some taxonomy cited such as Bloom, Krathwohl, or Gagne. As for me Gagne's nine events is very familiar to me due to the application in the IDE 631 couse. However I have little sense about the other two taxonomies. Therefore I searched for some information online, and found a website which provides very clear matrix to demenstrate. These are very good taxonomy that I can apply depending on different instructional condition. Here is the website about the taxonomies of Bloom and Krathwohl. http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/curric/newtaxonomy.htm