Beginning from the end: house design and lesson design

Parallel approaches…

Teacher: Need a template to plan the lessons.

Architect: Sure. A sort of floorplan in architectural terms.

Teacher: Like planning a house?

Architect: When you design a house, the first thing you locate are the windows. You walk on a site and visualize the views.

Teacher: See what you mean. So an online lesson should have a vision which then leads to its goal-setting.

Architect: Yes, first visualize the outcome then specify the steps.

Teacher: Got it. the upfront mantra in neon should be “performance objective”. What skillset will this lesson deliver? What is the student expected to DO after sitting through a Zoom session?

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Voice-over

House design works backwards from walking on a site and imagining the views which then determines the floorplan and walls. Instructional design is working backwards from imagining the demonstrable performances of students at the end of a lesson which helps write the lesson objectives.