Objective

            Last Monday’s activity must be the culmination of 158’s lectures: the instructional design workshop. Here we had to integrate all our leanings from the modules in order to come up with an appropriate ID for our patients. This time, it wasn’t for a classmate or simulated OSCE patients. This time, we would be handling real patients with real disabilities. One would imagine how nerve-wracking this would be! It was also a motivation to do our best in the class.

            After reading Module 6, I thought devising the appropriate objectives for my client would be relatively easy. However, it took my batch mates and me almost 3 hours with countless revisions in between. After that we then made the content, strategies, resources and evaluation strategy parallel with our objectives. In my opinion, this part was more tedious. Although we had undergone 3 Therapeutic Exercises classes, I initially cannot come up with anything for the content. However, once I got my Kisner ebook open, everything fell into place.

My patient is diagnosed with expressive aphasia so it was also a challenge to come up with teaching and evaluation strategies for him. Fortunately, I was able to integrate the advice from various lecturers. I opted to use verbal instructions and illustrations for teaching. In order to garner appropriate feedback for my objective that lies under the cognitive domain, I thought use illustrations. My patient would point to the illustration that depicts the correct answer.

This activity made me appreciate teaching and teachers more. It clearly shows the immense amount of work to do in order to devise a lesson plan, never mind the execution. It also made me fear for the next academic year. Imagine devising several activity plans for several patients…. A day! Thankfully, I believe my batch is equipped with the appropriate knowledge to traverse this hurdle.