Assignment:
Reflect on a prior instructor-led learning experience in which you were the student. You may choose a training course or a classroom course.
Address the following questions:
1. What were you hoping to learn from the learning experience?
2. What process or model do you think the instructor followed when planning the learning experience?
3. What indicated to you that the learning experience was well planned and met applicable standards?
4. How well did the learning experience meet your needs?
5. There are many different methods for lesson planning. In Methods for Effective Teaching, you were introduced to the linear-rational, mental-image, and backward design methods. If you had been the instructor, which of these models would you have used to design your learning experience? Why?
6. If you had been the instructor, what role would standards play in your planning of this learning experience?