Google Classroom Training

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Great Training Design - Makes Me Wanna Dance!

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            Great instructional design is a training method that is goal oriented and learner centered.  This systematic approach provides the foundation needed for trainees to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully complete a job related task or produce a product.  The ADDIE model is an instructional design tool often used to plan training and activities.  This model contains five stages that guide the designer in providing a well organized, purposeful, and meaningful experience related to the training goals.  A skilled instructional designer spends a great deal of time in the analysis portion of the ADDIE model.  During this first phase, the creator must seek to understand the characteristics of their audience and identify the objectives or goals of the training.  There are constraints such as time allowed, costs, and facility availability that must also be considered.  Furthermore, there are options in the delivery that can impact the presentation. Careful consideration should be given to the type of delivery system as one delivery system might work better than another based on the task and audience needs.  Great instructional design should always be student centered and focus on the objectives.  In his book, Piskurich (2015), spends a great deal of time explaining the importance of student centered and objective focused training. Training which is planned with this is forethought will lead to a design that is meaningful, engaging, and purposeful. 

            During the design phase, objectives and assessments are chosen and correlated. Just as with the analysis phase, this phase is done in a logical and systematic way with great attention to details.  These details are important in the next phase of the model, the development phase.  Content created is assemble, reviewed and revised during the development phase of the ADDIE model. For the implementation phase, the training is presented to the learners according to methods and strategies outlined in the first three.  Then the trainees are asked to provide feedback and suggestions for improving any aspects of the design. This information is used to evaluate and revise the training as necessary and is known as the evaluation phase. 

            Before reading Piskurich’s book about instructional design, I did not know that the needs of adult learners were as important as students' needs in a learning environment.  I, also, did not know there was an specific systematic approach for design training for the industrial environment. One thing I changed after reflecting on my own instructional design is the way in which my learners will engage with the content.  My training will cover Google Classroom and how to implement it in a classroom setting.  During my research into the needs of my audience, I discovered that my they did not have the prerequisite skills needed in order to set up their Google Classroom.  I had chosen this as my topic because I had implemented into my classroom and they had asked me to help them do so as well.   So, I had to revise my design to fit my students' needs.  I will begin my training with Google email (Gmail) and chunk pieces of it together until we accomplish the goal of implementing Google Classroom into their classrooms.  Another change as well is the addition of a blended learning experience where trainees will be enrolled in my Google Classroom. This will allow them to see and experience what their students will after they setup their own. I will also follow up with them after training is complete and require them to provide evidence of their classroom experiences.  I look forward to seeing them go paperless and experience the ease of grading.

         I recently attended a training session about how to disrupt poverty in our schools as part of professional development in my school.  As a teacher, I have attended many training sessions over the years. Yet, this one was different as I found myself checking to see if it contained great instructional design and it did. This presenter had done her homework and we were engaged and actively participating in the learning process.  She blended the learning experiences, used many different visuals, provided us with graphic organizer, and had us moving and talking with one another through various activities. The time flew by and we learned much.  After the meeting was over, a friend and I asked her if she had ever heard of instructional design and she stated she had not.  Then we explained to her about the components of her training and how those components were exciting for us to note.       

Works Cited

Davis, A. (2013). Using instructional design principles to develop effective information literacy instruction: The ADDIE model. College & Research Libraries News, 74(4) 205-207. Retrieved from http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/4/205.full.pdf+html

Hicks, T. (2013). Crafting web texts. In T. Antao (Ed.), Crafting digital writing: Composing  texts across media and genres. (pp. 36-60). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.