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.