Plan to Succeed

One of my favorite quotes by Sir Winston Churchill states: “He who fails to plan is planning to fail”. Formulating a plan is the first step to attain the success of an activity. It is in planning that we establish our goals which would guide in executing our actions.

Last March 23, we planned our lessons for our respective clients through making an Instructional Design (ID). First, we had to make objectives for each domain (psychomotor, cognitive and affective) that are specific and measurable. The audience, behavior, condition and degree of mastery should be adequately stated. Also, these objectives had to be realistic and appropriate to challenge the patients.
At the end of the session, these objectives should be concretely observed and quantified. I admit that it was a challenge to create objectives for patients we have not evaluated or assessed yet.

Afterwards, we had to come up with the content and specific activities. The content and activities have to address the specific domain targeted. They should also engage the specific age group to be taught. For example, adult learners can be given technical lectures while pediatric learners can be given activities in the form of play. Consequently, the evaluation should measure if the learner has or has not attained the objectives.

I have learned that in order to proceed with the planning, the objectives had to be suitable for the client. Making an objective that imposes too high challenge to the patients would lead to a poor-planned activity. It would be easier for the teacher to know a lot about his/her client in order to formulate sound objectives.

Obtaining the skill of planning well will help me in the PT field. Through planning correctly, the activities that I could give to my client will be relevant and can benefit him/her more. No effort and time will be wasted.