5 hours, 2 leaves of notebook paper, three sheets of yellow paper, and 1/8 of the ink in my pen is what it took to finish one instructional design. This was what my 6th day in learning how to teach looked like.
The instructional design is a teaching plan. This is where all the approaches and techniques in teaching I have learned from the past few days come into play. All of those things are consolidated in a comprehensive table of the strategy and goals you plan to employ as a teacher.
The objectives are probably the hardest one to come up with. This is the foundation of your whole instructional design since this becomes the basis for the content and evaluation of your plan. You plan activities that ultimately achieve the goals you have set. The rest of the instructional design requires vast amounts of creativity- from the content to the strategies until the evaluation part. The activities must be engaging, appropriate and considerate to the circumstances of the patient.
Learning is hard. Planning is hard. Teaching, even harder.
Everything is hard.
But as all good things are, the difficulty in achieving them is what makes them all the more worth it.
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