Instructional Design

I feel that instructional design is one of the key factors that will lead to student success.  Educators should put forth the effort upfront to ensure that they have developed and are able to implement profound and engaging lesson for their students.  This requires that teachers use a design model that will guide them through the process of designing and evaluating their lessons.  One of the most popular and influential instructional design model was created by Dick et al. (Reiser 2006).  This design includes five elements of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.  There is opportunities for revise throughout the design model.   There were six basic characteristic of Instructional Design listed in this chapter.  They are as follows:  1. It is learner center.  2. It is goal oriented.   3.  It is meaningful.  4.  The outcomes can be measured in a reliable and valid way.  5.  It is empirical, iterative, and self-correcting.  6. It is usually a team effort.

As an educator I feel that we must always keep in mind our student when we begin to design lesson and the required curriculum that we must teach.  With these things in mind we can begin to design our lessons.  If I were to redesign Dick, Carey and Carey model of instruction it would be to an analysis of the students.  I do not believe you could effectively design instruction without knowing what type of learners are receiving your instruction.