You've warmed up your audience.
You've gotten their attention.
You've told them what they're about to learn, and you've reminded them of their prior related knowledge.
It's time to start actually teaching....this is the exciting part!
"Actually teaching" is a three-step process, if you want your course participants to actually REMEMBER and be able to use what you teach.
Robert M. Gagné's "nine events of instruction" include not just presenting the instruction, but also providing learners with guided practice in APPLYING what they've just learned, with your direct guidance and help. And once they can do what you're teaching them to do with your help, the next step is to structure in some way for them to do it on their own.
This three step process takes your learners past the point of passively absorbing YOUR expertise, and helps them begin to internalize and develop their own competencies and skill sets, based on what you have shared with them.
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Any time you plan to present instruction, it's critical to consider how you will include guided practice, and how you will help your learners implement what you're teaching on their own.
This is what makes the difference between effective teaching and simply exposing people to information.
Over the next three weeks, I'll write blog posts that go into each of these steps in depth:
PRESENT
INSTRUCTION
Present the instruction the way that works best for the specific TYPE of learning the lesson contains.
What are the different possible types of learning, and how do you know which one your lesson contains? I'll explain in next week's blog post, so stay tuned!
GUIDED
PRACTICE
Provide ways for your learners to implement the instruction themselves, with your guidance, support, and help.
This is one of the MOST important things you can do to ensure your instruction really gets learned.
INDEPENDENT
PERFORMANCE
It's not enough to just tell learners to do something...we must build structures into our courses that help them do the right thing, on their own, in the right way...
.. and to demonstrate that they know it, through their own actions.
As you think about content that you want to include in your online course, it's helpful to start brainstorming about how you can help your course participants play an active role in learning the materials... at first with your direct guidance and help, and then on their own.
If you'd like to learn more about how to do this, check out my book, Course Design Formula: How to Teach Anything to Anyone Online.
If you'd like to talk about it, send me an email to Rebecca@learnandgetsmarter.com, or join us on Facebook!
