Week Six
Chapters 7-8 - Way back when, or at least it seems that way, we analyzed our needs, our audience and basically our situation. More recently we started to define our intentions with rather specific words and within certain categories. Now we will convert those ordered, through sequencing, ideas into plans or strategies as to how we will proceed.
Strategies
and Designing the Message
As we wander
through through these two chapters, we are recognizing that our
past decisions about domains (cognitive, affective or psychomotor)
and objectives within these domains are affecting how we will process
with our plans or strategies for teaching and for the students'
learning. Facts will be presented differently than concepts or prnciples
and rulles. Teaching procedures will vary from teaching interpersonal
skills. and attitudes. And we have found that personally each of
us prefer a particular teaching strategy. Despite our preferences
we need to move forward on the basis of our past decisions, or as
suggested earlier, step back and re-evaluate our past decisions.
As anticipated, we will continue to
go in circles, adjusting our past decisions and moving forward with
better decisions and further into the process. So now we're starting
to 
design
how we will present the message. We are gathering materials, supplies
and writing our scripts. That's where we are now.
Soon, within a week or so, we will
finalize our teaching process leaving only the assessment process.
You assignment at this time, in keeping with our overall goal of
developing a complete series of lessons or a unit. As you deisgn
you strategies and gather your materials and supplies, keep in mind
how you will package this project so that it can be a useable teaching
tool, and hopefully in an electronic format. It's time to visualize
your final complete project as you compile your strategies these
next weeks.
The strategies/materials portion of
the project is due May 18. The entire project is
due June 11, with the draft due on June 1.
