Day 6

Today’s task was to create our own instructional design for our assigned clients for the incoming field work.

Drafting the content of the instructional design seemed easy enough because we had a set of examples to base our answers on. However, I have learned that it is especially difficult to identify your objectives for clients you have yet to meet. For example, I myself found it hard to gauge the capabilities of my clients cognitively because I was trying to be careful not to underestimate their capacity. It turned out in the end that the objective I have managed to set was too high for my patients. The fact that we lack the experience in handling real clients may have led to the poor judgment.

After subsequent drafts, I finally had an approved instructional design. Personally, I found myself overthinking the task. The feedback from the advisers were very helpful because it helped me simplify my thought process.

What I have learned from today was the importance of preparation. In our profession, preparation does not mean to plan an intervention, but to plan the appropriate intervention. The way a treatment session goes will all root back to the plans made for that meeting because it serves as the foundation of the session. And if the foundation is already weak from the very beginning, all else will crumble.