Instructional Alignment: Optimizing Objectives, Methods, and Assessment for Developing Unit Plans - Softcover

Houff, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607094533 ISBN 13: 9781607094531

Publisher: R&L Education, 2012

Synopsis

In response to a quagmire of jargon based and convoluted curriculum textbooks, Instructional Alignment offers a concise and basic approach to instructional design. By exploring the areas of planning, assessment, and methodology, the text explains how these three areas provide an essential framework for effective teaching and illustrates how they align in order to maximize student learning.

Houff guides the reader through the process of developing objectives that identify what the learners should know and be able to do at the end of the lesson. Next, the readers study assessment strategies and tools that correlate with the stated objective in order to accurately determine if the objective has been met. Direct and indirect instructional strategies are then explored to provide the reader with a variety of options or methods to best meet the objective. Final alignment is demonstrated through a project-based unit example that provides a visual representation of theory into practice. With the concluding glossary of current trends and terms in instructional design, readers will finish this key guidebook with a thorough understanding of effective instruction, as well as the capacity to adopt methodical, tested, lessons in the classroom.

About this title

About the Author

Suzanne G. Houff instructs pre-service teachers in the initial licensure and Master of Education programs at the University of Mary Washington. Before entering higher education, she taught at the elementary and middle school levels as both a classroom teacher and library media specialist.

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607094533
• ISBN 13: 9781607094531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96