Tag: instructional goals

Let’s Begin :)

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When I first read this motivational sentence, I spent some time thinking on it. Everyone wants to be great, no one is okay with the average. The thinking process is fine, but the way through greatness is the hard one. But, hey, if you do not start, you will never know. Besides life treats different to everyone, so who knows? 🙂

I just want to mention one or two things more. I searched this sentence both in Turkish and English pages, and the difference between them made me felt pity for my country. On English websites, there are articles about this sentence, they thought really hard on it and made comments about the sentence and the author himself, who is a motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar. They came up with new ideas and new motivational speeches after the sentence.

On the other hand, when I wrote the Turkish meaning of this sentence, Google brought me only quote sites, motivational sentences sites, adages sites, whosesentencesarethose.com kind of sites… It was really disappointing. We stopped thinking, we are not creating anymore, we are not producing. We should be motivated by these sentences and achieve greater successes, but we’d rather make show.

We must stop this nonsense, and put our reality glasses on at once. So let’s begin 🙂

Instructional Goals

So in this post, I want to talk about assessing needs to identify instructional goals (Dick & Carey, 2001). Dick and Carey mention the significance of the needs assessment process in order to achieve the instructional goals like “skills, knowledge, and attitudes”. Designers mostly focus on acquisitions at the end of the course. The acquisitions also take place in my yearly plan (guess what? I’m a teacher 🙂 ) and they are like “students will be able to take notes while listening”.

The problem, the solution, and the instructional goal have to be crystal clear. As the authors said, “identify the problem” and find solutions about them is not an easy task.  We, as learners, have to find a problem and try to identify a solution, too. We should emphasize the acquisition part which is the main goal of instructional design.

To learn more, check Dick & Carey (2001) – The Systematic Design of Instruction, Chapter 2.