After researching each
step in the analysis section, I believe my Instructional Design model should
address visual, auditory and tactile learners. The auditory aspect will
help the students will poor reading skills, the visuals will give students a
mental picture to make connections with written material and the tactile
activities will give students a chance to explore the new information they have
learned.
My overall goal or the
Instructional Design model is:
Students will show
understanding of the use online tutorials, consisting of
presentations, instructions and activities, in order to gain the necessary
library skills needed to successfully use the resources in the school library.
However I need to address each section in the model separately with
its own goal. For each lesson in the Instructional Design Model the sub-goals are:
- Students will demonstrate an
understanding of the organization of the library and the major
informational using the Dewey Decimal System.
- Students will employ the features
of the Destiny Card Catalog to locate materials in the Library Media
Center.
- Students will
utilize the applications in Ebsco’s Research Center in order for them to
identify, organize, evaluate and communicate information for educational
and real-world applications.
Right now I feel like I help the majority of students search for
books and materials. I want them to be more independent, not for my sake
but to help themselves. I don’t think they have any idea of what is
expected in high school or college and I want them to be prepared. The type of
thinking I want to promote in my library will be one that will lead students to
search for materials and experiences that will empower students to be lifelong
learners. I want them to correctly utilize the resources we have to
actively seek out knowledge and be able to locate, retrieve, evaluate, and
productively use information from a wide variety of sources.
After a little research
on “disciplinary understanding”, I understand what types of thinking will
produce this understanding. To review quickly I found this website I felt was
along the same lines as Ritchhart, Morrison and Church. The article “Educating
for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World” stated
“Rigorous disciplinary understanding requires that students come to view the
disciplines as the knowledge and thinking tools that our societies construct
and revise to make sense of the world, explain phenomena, solve problems,
create products, and ask novel questions in informed ways. Understanding a
discipline thus involves understanding not only key disciplinary concepts, but
also understanding how such concepts are produced with the aid of disciplinary
methods, how they can be applied, and how knowledge in the discipline is best
communicated”. The types of thinking to cultivate in students which will
help achieve this understanding are
Critical Thinkers - this is convergent thinking where learners assess the worth and
validity of something. It involves precise, persistent and objective analysis.
Learner can work together to develop a common understanding.
Creative or Innovative Thinking - this involves divergent thinking. Learners work to
generate something new or different. They test new ideas or work as well
or better than previous ideas. These learners also have new ways of approaching
things that lead to new possibilities.
Conceptual Thinking - allows you to find connections or patterns between abstract
ideas and put them together.
Intuitive Thinking -
taking what you perceive or sense to be true and use it in the final decision.
Since I have been in
education all of my administrators have asked for our lesson plans focus in
this area. They want our students to think past just the facts and use
the information they learn to make other connections and develop a deeper
understanding of the subject.
