There have been many comments throughout this course about teachers not being trained in instructional design. It seems many wished they had been trained in ID. As I read chapter 9, section "The Designer's Role in Materials Development and Instructional Delivery" I noticed a connection. As teachers we create lesson plans, units, semester and yearly goals. We do this process, just in a different way. Since we are creating our own materials with the use of state core curriculum, school curriculum and other resources, we create the design for our classes.
Much of this process of analyzing our learners, materials etc. is part of the process that we have learned as we studied to receive our edication degree.
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This is how I thought about the same thing. I took notice of all these comments as well and I believe that teachers are continually designing instruction for their classrooms, just not in the format and structure that we have adopted in this class. As well, teachers generally do not put in the depth of analysis that we have put in to our course required instructional design. I think we hit on that point in one of our discussions - there just isn't the time to make that possible.
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