How to Conduct Instruction Modeling
George A. Khachatryan · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020
This chapter provides a step-by-step guide to conducting instruction modeling. Once an instructional tradition to be modeled has been chosen, the first step is to create a “generic model,” which is a detailed description of the general pedagogical goals that teachers in this tradition pursue and the methods they use to achieve them. The second step is to design a learning platform suitable to modeling the selected tradition; the platform includes both software components and the needed offline (implementation) behaviors. The third step is to create instructional content for the platform; each lesson should be carefully designed to reproduce the experiences of the corresponding offline lesson. We discuss trade-offs between more sequential (“waterfall”) and more iterative (“agile”) approaches.