The Blueprint of a Meaningful Therapy

Last Monday, we practiced how to tailor learning objectives and then later on, an instructional design.  It looks easy to do as I see the example in the module but in reality, the thinking process is a long, hard work.

The first activity was writing a concise objective. I thought it was easy because you only have to write the condition, the learner, then the behavior and the verbs to be used are already available from the module but those action words are not just synonyms. Instead, they have a hierarchy of depending on appropriateness. The most difficult of the domains for me was the affective domain. It looks like the cognitive domain and it was hard to tell the difference that I had to fall in line over and over again to ask questions from the instructors.

Then there was the instructional design making. Without a proper objective, the instructional design will not be written succinctly so the first activity had to be thorough to proceed with the next step.  Filling out the contents and strategies were the hardest part for me because these required the bulk of the thinking process that I had to eat chocolate to think properly. The draft was unlimited. My hands were exhausted. My head was aching. Writing that instructional design was something I will not forget.

And it is really important not to forget in spite of my whining because a majestic palace would not be built without a meticulous blueprint. Just like in the clinics, an effective therapy session would be hard to achieve without a comprehensive instructional design.