Week 4: Assure Model Lesson Plan
Week 4: My Reflection on The ASSURE Model Lesson Plan
The ASSURE Model Lesson Plan – By: D.Hala Ibrahim Hassan
The ASSURE Model is a guide for planning and conducting instruction that uses media.
The Assure Model has six steps, represented by the acronym in its title that describes a set of
tasks central to the informed selection and use of educational technology. The tasks are:
Analyze Learners
State Objectives
Select Media and Materials
Utilize Media and Materials
Require Learner Participation
Evaluate and Revise
Analyze Learners
The first step in planning is to specifically identify your audience. Your audience is your students. You must know the audience if you are to select the best medium to meet the objectives you have set. The audience can be analyzed in terms of their general characteristics (grade level, age, sex, mental, emotional, physical or social problems, socio-economic status etc.) and specific entry competencies (prior knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the topic), and learning styles (visual, musical, verbal,
logical, etc.).
State Objectives:
The next step in planning is to specifically state the objectives for the instructional experience.
Objectives are the learning outcomes, that is, what will the student get out of the lesson? Hence, they must be stated in behavioral terms of what the learner (not the teacher or presenter) will be able to do as a result of instruction.
Objectives typically contain four basic parts:
Audience-who your learners are? (Students)
Behavior to be demonstrated
Conditions under which the behavior will be observed
Degree to which the learned skills are to be mastered.
Select methods, media and materials:
Once you know your audience and have a clear idea of what they should get out of the lesson, then it is time to select the appropriate method for the given learning task, select available materials, modify existing materials, or design new materials to help accomplish this task.
Utilize media and materials:
Now you must decide how the media, materials and technology must be used to carry out your method/s. It is important to preview the materials before using them. If you decide to use electronic equipment, practice using the equipment in advance to be sure everything works. If all is not well, (equipment malfunctions) ensure that you have a plan B. It is also important to practice the lesson itself before it is implemented. Next, prepare the room and make ready the necessary equipment and facilities. Learners should be prepared for the learning experience. Then, conduct the instructional experience.
Require Learner Participation:
It is important to note that students learn best when they are actively involved in the learning experience. Whatever your teaching strategy, be sure to incorporate questions and answers, discussions, group work, hands-on activities, and other ways of getting students actively involved in the learning of the content. One should try to avoid lecturing for lengthy periods. It is very important to listen to your audience (students) and allow them to become aware of the content. Allow them to construct knowledge as opposed to trying to "teach" them knowledge. Feedback must be provided before any type of evaluation is administered.
Evaluate and Revise:
This last stage is often overlooked but it is the most important of all. After instruction, you must evaluate the entire instructional process. You must reflect upon the lesson, the stated objectives, the instructional strategy, the instructional materials, and the assessment and determine if these elements of the lesson were effective or if one or more of them need to be changed. If there are discrepancies between what you intended and what actually happened during the lesson, make appropriate revisions before using the lesson again.
Example of Lesson Plan:
The ASSURE Model Lesson Plan – By: D.Hala Ibrahim Hassan
The ASSURE Model is a guide for planning and conducting instruction that uses media.
The Assure Model has six steps, represented by the acronym in its title that describes a set of
tasks central to the informed selection and use of educational technology. The tasks are:
Analyze Learners
State Objectives
Select Media and Materials
Utilize Media and Materials
Require Learner Participation
Evaluate and Revise
Analyze Learners
The first step in planning is to specifically identify your audience. Your audience is your students. You must know the audience if you are to select the best medium to meet the objectives you have set. The audience can be analyzed in terms of their general characteristics (grade level, age, sex, mental, emotional, physical or social problems, socio-economic status etc.) and specific entry competencies (prior knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the topic), and learning styles (visual, musical, verbal,
logical, etc.).
State Objectives:
The next step in planning is to specifically state the objectives for the instructional experience.
Objectives are the learning outcomes, that is, what will the student get out of the lesson? Hence, they must be stated in behavioral terms of what the learner (not the teacher or presenter) will be able to do as a result of instruction.
Objectives typically contain four basic parts:
Audience-who your learners are? (Students)
Behavior to be demonstrated
Conditions under which the behavior will be observed
Degree to which the learned skills are to be mastered.
Select methods, media and materials:
Once you know your audience and have a clear idea of what they should get out of the lesson, then it is time to select the appropriate method for the given learning task, select available materials, modify existing materials, or design new materials to help accomplish this task.
Utilize media and materials:
Now you must decide how the media, materials and technology must be used to carry out your method/s. It is important to preview the materials before using them. If you decide to use electronic equipment, practice using the equipment in advance to be sure everything works. If all is not well, (equipment malfunctions) ensure that you have a plan B. It is also important to practice the lesson itself before it is implemented. Next, prepare the room and make ready the necessary equipment and facilities. Learners should be prepared for the learning experience. Then, conduct the instructional experience.
Require Learner Participation:
It is important to note that students learn best when they are actively involved in the learning experience. Whatever your teaching strategy, be sure to incorporate questions and answers, discussions, group work, hands-on activities, and other ways of getting students actively involved in the learning of the content. One should try to avoid lecturing for lengthy periods. It is very important to listen to your audience (students) and allow them to become aware of the content. Allow them to construct knowledge as opposed to trying to "teach" them knowledge. Feedback must be provided before any type of evaluation is administered.
Evaluate and Revise:
This last stage is often overlooked but it is the most important of all. After instruction, you must evaluate the entire instructional process. You must reflect upon the lesson, the stated objectives, the instructional strategy, the instructional materials, and the assessment and determine if these elements of the lesson were effective or if one or more of them need to be changed. If there are discrepancies between what you intended and what actually happened during the lesson, make appropriate revisions before using the lesson again.
Example of Lesson Plan:
The challenges I faced this week:
Since I have never teach before I enrolled into Teacher Education, creating lesson plan was new for me so it did not come as easy as my classmates who teach before. I have learned the assure model and objectives for the instructional experience and how to apply them to the lesson plans. I wish I could have done a lesson plan to see if I truly grasp the session. I know I understand the objectives in doing a lesson plan but I think I need more practice tho. I have learned that when planning a lesson students should be involved in the learning experience and in that way they learn best. Also as teachers we should allow students to construct knowledge as opposed to trying to "teach" students knowledge.
Since I have never teach before I enrolled into Teacher Education, creating lesson plan was new for me so it did not come as easy as my classmates who teach before. I have learned the assure model and objectives for the instructional experience and how to apply them to the lesson plans. I wish I could have done a lesson plan to see if I truly grasp the session. I know I understand the objectives in doing a lesson plan but I think I need more practice tho. I have learned that when planning a lesson students should be involved in the learning experience and in that way they learn best. Also as teachers we should allow students to construct knowledge as opposed to trying to "teach" students knowledge.
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