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Designing Effective Instruction
Here you'll find lots of documents and links on principles of instructional design and their application to different knowledge systems.
Designing Effective Instruction. A paper with short acquisition tests and applications.
Cognition, Logic, and Instruction. On the idea that each form of knowledge (e.g., concepts), regardless of the subject matter, is acquired and applied via a specific set of logical operations. Therefore, it makes sense to design instruction so students can easily use the proper logical operations.
Elements of Effective Instruction.
Strands, Lessons, and Formats. How to organize instruction from curriculum strands, to lessons, to tasks within lessons, to formats for teaching each task.
31 Big Ideas in Instructional Design.
Logic and Design. Effective instruction is almost all about logically technically proficient communication--clear statements and demonstrations, proper range of examples, juxtaposition of examples and nonexamples to reveal important defining vs. irrelevant features, logical progression. This (exceptionally boring but marveously well written) paper will help you understand logic and its use in designing instruction. The paper will leave you saying, "How does he DO it? I sure wish he would cut it out!"
Steps in Instructional Design. As foreshadowed by the title, this missive lays out the steps for designing instruction.
Effective Instruction Requires Faultless Communication.
Student-program Alignment and Teaching to Mastery, by Siegfried Engelmann, main developer of Direct Instruction programs. This is a must read. You won't be disappointed.
Wholistic-Naturalistic Toilet Training. Sometimes you have to take matters into your OWN hands, so to speak.
Designing Instruction Based on Mechanisms of Learning.
General Format for Teaching
Instructional Objectives
The Only Theory of Learning You Need. Hyperbole? You decide.
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