Mike Salamanca Instructional design strategies

In this course I used a few different types of instructional strategies. One of these strategies is direct instruction. As much of a fun as I am for constructivist learning, I believe that in order to properly address the lesson of properly cooking a steak it would be best that I describe the various ways to tell, then for us to discuss what they’ve learned. I will be using direct instruction to describe how to pick steak, how to cook a steak, and how to determine when it is done. The other learning strategy that I will employ is the group discussion. I think that if all the students did was listen to me there really wouldn’t be as much learning as there could be. With the discussion students are able to ask questions about possible mistakes that they could be making in their cooking and if they ask questions their participants will be able to answer their questions and I will be the “final word” on whether it is correct or not. The final strategy that I will be employing are informal assessments. Informal assessments will be helpful in determining how much time should be spent on each section. I feel too often a class is run too slowly because the facilitator is not reading their audience properly, if the students already know a particular subject, why subject them to listening to it again.

The content was organized in this fashion because I felt it was the best way to utilize the time given. To discuss the each part of cooking a steak could take much longer, but in order to fit within our time limit I will have to lead the course myself. With that said there will still be a group discussion so we can all learn from each other, but break-out rooms won’t be used because it wouldn’t serve any purpose for a five person group.