Let's say you want to develop a segment of instruction to teach this procedure:
“Given the required tools and access to the technical manual, assemble the portable satellite dish antenna.”
As the author, you want to develop the most effective, efficient instruction you can. Moreover, you don't want to take all day figuring our where to start. That's where instructional strategies come in handy. There is a special strategy, or treatment plan for teaching a procedural objective. Follow the treatment plan to create the instruction that enables the learners to assemble the satellite dish.
There is also a treatment plan for teaching concepts. In fact, there is a treatment plan for teaching each type of objective. Once you classify the objective, you can use the treatment plan associated with that type of classification to develop the instruction.
Treatment Plan
Sometimes the strategy is called a “treatment plan.” Each objective requires that specific information be imparted to the learner so that the learner can recall or accomplish something. The treatment plan specifies how the information should be arranged to best impart the information.
The Standard Components of Instruction:
The strategies, or treatment plans, all have one thing in common: Instruction for every objective is presented, or displayed, through a set of “components” of information. For this reason, the methodology that defines these strategies is called the “Component Display Methodology.”
The Components are:
•A brief statement to introduce the objective.
•followed by a main idea that conveys all of the essential information.
•There is also a separate explanations, or help that clarifies the main idea.
•A learning activity, such as a demonstration or examples, shows or further clarifies the main idea.
•Always, a practice component is provided to give the learner a chance to finalize his or her understanding and confirm mastery of the objective before moving on to the next objective.
But HOW the components are conveyed varies according to the type of objective. In other words, the Main Idea for a procedure objective is different than a Main Idea for a Concept objective. Likewise for the Examples, Demonstrations, Practice and so on. Each type of objective is presented with the same type of components, but exactly how the components are conveyed varies by the objective type.
Objective Classifications
An Overview of Objectives Classification
Classifying Procedure Objectives
Classifying Concept Objectives
Classifying Process Objectives
Classifying Principle Objectives
