Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Never Knew How Difficult It Could Be

You never truly appreciate the value of something until you fully understand the workings behind what is presented at face value. Teaching may appear easy until you step into the teacher’s shoes and realize the amount of preparation that the teacher had to go through just to be ready for a single teaching session.

This was perhaps the most exhausting activity of this course. I have never felt so drained before in all the other courses and I have never worked so long on a paper than I have on this activity. I did not realize that a simple “instructional design” needed so much effort in order to be truly polished.

Working in groups while at the same time working on individual instructional designs did help a little, but I do think that working in groups could have been more helpful at first because generating ideas was actually a bit difficult on your own and especially since this was our first time creating an instructional design. Studying the module beforehand and having advisers available for consulting aided in the process but having a more comprehensive and clear module and more advisers available would have been of more help.

All in all, this activity was tiring but effective in teaching us how to work on an instructional design. I know that this will be of use to me in my future career as a PT no matter which field I choose to work in. It always helps to be prepared and organized and this should be one of the most effective ways of doing just that.

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