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.