Making an Instructional Design

We began making the instructional design with writing objectives first and then the whole afternoon was spent creating the actual content of the instructional design. The first part was the most challenging and I have not appreciated the objectives up until yesterday. I know that it is a guide, to put structure in your topic and to help you gauge if you accomplished what you intended to teach but I did not expect that those seemingly simple sentences actually takes a lot more thinking than the actual content of your presentation. 

I have tried teaching a class way back in high school but the content was handed down to me. The only thing I had to do is to stand in front and explain it to the class. I have never tried structuring the content of what to teach so it’s only now that I see why it is needed.  Making an instructional design was hard for us because we were over thinking of what to include and we constantly have to consider a lot things such as feasibility, grammar, consistency of ideas and many other things, but once you focus on what you really want to teach, you start getting the hang of it. 

I found the activity fun, minus the pressure to accomplish it right away. It was like playing chess to me. Making a move wasn’t enough; you always have to have multiple back up plans.This is necessary for us to learn because in the future, knowing how to organize is basic and essential to get through whatever project or endeavor we are in.