ASSURE Lesson Plan

                                 

3.8.4 ASSURE Reflect on lesson planning

It is the responsibility of the teacher to plan for his lesson  effectively before attending to his learners. This can be more effective when you incorporate technology in your planning and teaching. the ASSURE model is the answer for this. It gives room for Analyzing, setting objectives,selecting methods,utilizing, requiring learners participation and finally evaluating. 

I have succeed in planning for my students in active engagement of technology enhancement. This has been enhanced by the effective utilization of the ASSURE model. As a teacher, Analyzing helps a lot to get prior knowledge of the class your going to attend to, for example you should know the number of the learners, their age, culture background, knowing the special cases, their weakness and strength. 

Its important to set objective and selecting the materials for the lesson your are going to teach  depending on the mentioned examples. A lesson which is enhanced with appropriate technology resources and materials simplifies the students understanding and also giving the teacher different teaching options of helping learner depending on their weakness or strength. For example you can find a learner who understands after seeing and touching and vise versa, so planning is very important to achieve the desired goal. 

In what ways will the learners be involved in activities you have not previously tried in your classes? 

 There are various ways of involving learners beyond the previously tried lessons. first and fore most it is important to give them research tasks for them to work on. this will help the learners to move a step foreword and this can be achieved with the help of the technology tools and resources. 

Secondly, employing some teaching models which can encourage learners to interact or discussing  in big or small groups. learners have different understanding, internalizing, and ways of absorbing things. Doing this gives an opportunity to some learners to involve some activities which are not previously no tried in class.   

Do you think that it is an effective way of planning a technology-enhanced lesson? How would you change the process to make it more effective?

Yes is ASSURE model is an effective way of planning a technology-enhanced lesson. Due to its structure, the S and U step were the teacher select the methods,materials and after utilizes them. This can be effective by, the teacher adding value to his teaching. for example the teacher employing instructional design medias like the internet,laptops,projectors, and supportive medias like charts, drawings, and etc.      

       

3.7.4 Reflection ASSURE Model to Technology Designing Enhancement 

Any thing said to be perfect, it has to be having a master plan. ASSURE model is a broad best teaching tool which integrates technology designing enhancement. It is a procedural guided for planing and delivering instruction that incorporates medias, materials and the methods. 

May learning experience in the ASSURE model is that each step has an added value to the teaching sector. It has six stages as demonstrated below. 

ASSURE starts with looking at the learner in detail. Nothing you plan or design is effective unless you have taken the time to look at the learners.teachers must assess their students' knowledge and skills prior to instruction to ensure that they differentiate instruction.That means that by understanding where the learners are at the start of instruction, a teacher will make every effort to assist all learners to be successful in their learning endeavors and that is the Analyzing stage. 

After you have to state the objective knowing the intended outcomes or expectations. No instruction should begin without everyone having a clear understanding of what is supposed to do.Learners need to know what they are to do. And, I add that you cannot assess learning without knowing what is expected.

In brief the rest of the stages have their importance, but i would like to point out the  importance in the design and implementation process to ASSURE good learning is the reflection component of evaluation. Once you have completed, it is important to account for what you have learnt.

The ASSURE model has helped me  think more systematically about designing technology-enhanced lessons since it is important to plan for your lessons and acquiring the right media,materials and appropriate methods to of helping learners.

 In summary, most valuable lessons i learned from my peers in the group discussions are, work in collaborative groups for critical thinking and problem solving, good selection of medias and methods.

   

3.6.4 Reflect (ASSURE) The value of analysing students

After being exposed to the ASSURE lesson-plan template, i learnt and appreciated the value of ASSURE model.  The ASSURE Model is an instructional guide for planning and conducting lessons that aim to integrate media and technology while focusing on the learner's needs. This model is based on six classroom procedures that is Analyze Learners, State Objectives, Select Methods, Media, and Materials, Utilize Media and Materials, Require Learner Participation, and Evaluate and Revise.

The value of Analyzing students. It is very important to plane for lessons before conducting them. Analyzing is valuable in that it creates room for prior planning of any thing. for example, knowing the number of students of the class your going to teach, this help the teacher to organize the specimens, teaching aids and support material depending on the size/number of the class.

Secondly its also important to know the age of the students your going to teach. This help the teacher to prepare the lesson knowing the understanding of his students depending on their age. Technology enrichment varies according to understanding. age and every thing on this universe. So the teacher can not fail to identifier an appropriate tool or material to the learners.  

It is also important to know the quality of the students, their internalizing ability and the power of understanding. This help the teachers to look for supplement technological support to help the learners to either add to what they have learnt or to understand more depending on the varsity resources of technology.

We should not forget that it is also important to Analyze areas of weakness of your students. this can drive the teacher to study and organize the learners depending to their abilities. The research has pointed it out that learners deffer from their understanding, internalizing, interpreting, sit and many others. So its the duty of the teacher to have some knowledge of his or her learners. 

Last but not the least, Analyzing the challenges of the learners is also an important sector in the preparation of lessons, helping, motivating,providing feed backs, leaving students to work at their own,  to mention but a few. All these highlights the value of Analyzing students.