Good instructional design to me is when a trainer knows their audience. By knowing their audience I mean actually knowing what their needs are, knowing the motivation behind them attending the training. Is this something that they want to know more about, or are they only here because it is mandatory? A trainer with good instructional design has clearly stated objectives, assesses the audiences learning, and has a well thought out plan that includes activities and handouts. I had the pleasure of sitting through an excellent presentation our first day back titled Disrupting Poverty. My oh my was this lady an excellent presenter. My colleagues and I were able to identify many components of instructional design. She started off with an icebreaker, and she had graphic organizers, multiple media sources, and much more!
What is something that I learned that I did not know before?
The main and most important thing that I will take away from this class is the ADDIE model. Up until July 2016, I viewed training as a means to learn new things. George Piskurich has taught me that there are benefits to having a well thought out training. When trainees are engaged, they will learn, and the benefit will be improved performance and ability to complete related tasks (Piskurich, 2015).
What is at least one thing you will change in your own design for future trainings/PD sessions?
My presentation is on using Google Forms. I plan on doing all of my behavior plans using Google Forms. Therefore, I need my teachers to be experts in this area. I plan on beginning with a short icebreaker where they pair up with a partner for 3-5 minutes and come back and share one thing that they did not know about that person. Next, I will play a short video clip which will be my introduction, which includes my objectives and overview. I will demonstrate how to complete a behavior plan using Google Forms followed by my trainees using Google Forms to create a form of their choice. In future trainings, I would change my icebreaker to be something more fun. My participants in my Google Forms training, all know each other which presented a small challenge. I truly believe that if I start with a great icebreaker, my trainees will be captivated and wanting more!
My final thoughts are that it should not matter the need, it should not matter the makeup of your audience, good instructional design starts with you! I would like to end with a quote from the book that I would like for you to take a moment and reflect on. "A good ID is always going back and forth along the strands of ADDIE to create the best learning intervention possible" (Piskurich, 2015). Is this you?
Reference
Hicks, T. (2013). Crafting web texts. In T. Antao (Ed.), Crafting digital writing: Composing texts across media and genres. (pp. 36-60). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Keonna, once again you have created a great blog post. I agree that the ADDIE model was a great take away from this course. The ADDIE model is a great model because it allows one to "keep making and re-making decisions all through the five phases" (Piskurich, 2015, p.5). Knowing I had the ability to rethink and make changes to my training was very essential to pulling it all together.
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