ASSURE LESSON PLAN REFLECT 3.8.4

Have you succeeded in planning for your students to be actively engaged? 
I have succeeded in planning for my students before and during my lessons. I usually utilize the lesson objectives which are set basing on the learners capability, the contact time given to me by the school and always in line with the other school programs. 
The only new phenomena here however is the technology integration part. Some times learners have limited skills with a given package of technology application and this may consume more time to drill them into it, where as some times it is the school with limited facility to engage all the learners at ago.
In what ways will they be involved in activities you have not previously tried in your classes? 

Through engaging students in my lessons by using the  constructivism approach, I believe we can interact and I use the web resources to give them URLs that are related to the subject content already covered and if they explore such, then they can benefit more.

 Also Students can as well be motivated if I use the Socratic approach of Higher Order Thinking questions. Such questions can tickle their mind and make them challenged to recall or to reason out answers during our lessons.
Do you think that it is an effective way of planning a technology-enhanced lesson? 
 It would be an effective way of planning for technology-enhanced lessons but the biggest challenge is that it covers many days when a teacher is teaching one topic or it consumes several hours if not days. This time may not be given to the teacher because there are many subjects with heavy content scrambling for the limited time within the school time table.
How would you change the process to make it more effective? 
I would move in the same vain with my colleague Margaret Serabidde mserabidde.blogspot.com/ who mentioned that teachers can identify some websites for the learners to to explore for themselves.  This can bridge the gap for the covered lessons which were not followed using the ASSURE lesson plan and save the teacher's time and can reduce the teacher's work work load.

Secondly, Video CDs with similar field content can be prepared and be given to students to watch in advance before the lesson time so that  they substitute it with the field trip  which consumes most time. It can be that they watch the videos from home or during their free time at school. 

ASSURE LESSON PLAN REFLECTION 3.7.4

The ASSURE lesson plan is one of the teaching tools that modern teachers can use to integrate technology in teaching . It has six stages and it involves to: analyze students, set objectives, select the instructional materials, utilize the media and materials, require learner participation, revise and evaluate.

The most crucial elements to be dealt with here are the; selection of materials, media and methods that are to be used while teaching. In other words the methodology in teaching is much more vital in here.

It is common for most teachers to prepare for what to teach and the rightful technology to be used, but then fail to apply the technology. Such scenario usually happens either due to inadequate preparation or trying to adapt to a technology that the teacher is not competent of.

However, if a teacher has followed the A,B,C,Ds of Audience, Behavior to be demonstrated, Conditions under which the learned behavior will be observed, the degree to which the learned skills are to be grasped, I am 100% convinced that the teacher can not stammer in the middle of the lesson.

If the analysis of learners is well done by the teacher, it is very certain that he/ she can easily develop the most fit objectives because, the action verbs can then touch the exact areas that suit the learners' capability. On top of that, the rightful technology can easily be chosen since already the teacher knows the learners' level of technology and application.

Learners need to be involved in order to make them grasp the concept by doing or practicing it themselves.







It is difficult to achieve results where one has not monitored or evaluated. Therefore, the evaluation part is necessary and if the learners have not mastered the concept, then revision of the tools or methodology is done.

Reflection 3.6.4: Value For Analyzing Students Before Proceeding With The Lesson Design Process

After I have had some exposure to the ASSURE lesson-plan template, I have found out that the value of analyzing students before proceeding with a lesson-design process, especially when integrating technology in my lesson requires: 

-My lesson objectives must cater for the expectations for my students.

- My lesson objectives should cater for the necessary requirements for the learning environment either in class or outside class.

- My lesson objectives should actually focus on assessing learning.

- The lesson objectives should determine which appropriate media or materials are required in order to be effective.

- I have found out that I need the best possible use of the media and other technology resources while preparing for my teaching.

-Learners have different learning capacities, cultural backgrounds, technological competencies and bodily physical abilities. Therefore a thorough look at all those variables can help the teacher to plan well the lesson he/she is intending to design.