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I still find it interesting that a person can become an instructor without having the faintest clue how it actually works. Those who make the choice become teachers spend years learning what it means and how to do it with intent. Those of us who teach in the trades need to be qualified in our trade and may get a 4 day primer on basic lesson planning. It makes sense that there are instructional design theories and frameworks that guide the creation of curriculum and the building of courses and learning experiences. When I started my teaching career I sat in on few lectures given by two of my peers, read the material I was expected to present and spent hours creating and editing power point presentations. It really would have helped if I new what I was doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years I have stumbled along and managed to build content that is both valid and helpfully in guiding my students through the learning process. The 4 day instructional skills workshop taught me a bit about Bloom’s Taxonomy and how to prepare lesson plans. My first real contact with proper instructional design happened when I worked with a team to build a new pre-employment course. There were two of us working as subject matter experts, along with an instructional designer, an editor, and media specialist. As a SME I was not privy to the thinking behind the design process, but I was interested in the way that those on the design team approached the project and the learning experiences that they created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I think about the process of creating or modifying a course it centres around the outcomes and what the learners need to obtain them. All of my course work in trades education is where the curriculum is laid out by the provincial governing body. How we present the required information and encourage the learning is the area where there is some wiggle room. Until now I have mostly followed old practices and tried to introduce some variety in how the material is presented. I use what I like to call a common sense approach, identify where students are struggling, try to find alternative ways present the information, see if it works, try again. I am hopping that as I move forward with this class and dive deeper into instructional design theories I can develop a more systematic and grounded approach to my methods. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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