Written Assignment 3
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University of the People
EDUC 5280: Instructional Techniques for the Secondary Classroom
Dr. Evrim Erbilgin
April
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EDUC5280 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 3 2
Written Assignment 3
Students in the classroom should be central to the instructional design process. As such, it
is essential for instructional designers or teachers to conduct a learner analysis to understand "the
target audience of learners and determining in advance what they can and will do" (Brown &
Green, 2016, p. 73). In their book, Brown & Green (2016) shared nine goals of learner analysis.
For this paper, I have identified three goals that are crucial to my instructional design process: (1)
Who is the intended audience for the instruction?, (2) What is the motivation for participating in
the instructional event?, and (3) What will make the instruction effective, efficient, and appealing
for the target audience of learners?
In the following paragraphs, I will discuss the significance of my selected goals and share
the limitations or challenges of their implementation in my classroom.
Who is the intended audience for the instruction?
I have had the opportunity to teach a spectrum of students from Grade 1 to 12 in my
teaching career. How many times have we heard high-school teachers saying something like
"stop behaving like a small child"? Elementary school teachers might not be able to say that
because they are dealing with small children. From the above example, one can see that teachers
have expectations of how students behave at different age groups. Appropriate content and
instructional methods would need to be chosen for students at different developmental stages. As
noted by Dijkstra (2004),
Designers have to solve the problem of which content of the domain knowledge should
be selected, how to sequence the different concepts and methods in a plausible order, and
how to describe the objectives in a way that meets the students' developmental age [Show Less]