Teachers and students earn lots of benefits through application of this theory in the learning process in the classroom. It was lots of ways for teachers to follow the theory in handling lesson process in classroom. Teachers can apply this theory by providing an objective of the task, full instructions to complete the task and the result expected from students. The objective must be clear so that students know what the purpose they doing this task and they can relate it to their prior knowledge of previous lessons. The task prepared should be able to be finished in the time given and students are able to get the expected result by following the instructions. The expected result should be clear so that students will know that they already complete the task successfully. Teachers must be creative and logic to create suitable task complete with its instructions. The example of lesson that can be considered to use this theory is the task of introduction of scientific calculator in mathematics form 2. Students need to solve a problem by following the instruction given in the text book. They will use the scientific calculator and get familiar with it until they solve the problem. They can check their final answer either correct or wrong at the answers pages at the back of the text book by themselves.
Teacher also can prepare various kind of task for different student’s intellectual level. Regarding this theory, the correct final result of the task is not so important because it highlights more on the student’s progression to solve the task. As a teachers whom dealing with different kind of student’s intellectual level, teacher need to be more alert and flexible to achieve learning objective. The difficult level should be lower for the back classes but still referring to the same learning objective with the in front classes task. The time given also need to be longer for the back classes if the students need more time as long as they are able to reach the goal of the task. For example is our current School Based Assessment (PBS). Teacher need to be more flexible to test their students of different intellectual background. The task can be easy, moderate or difficult as long as it is still under the learning objective. What the most important thing of the PBS task is students should be able to achieve the learning objective of the lesson by scoring the good band, no matter how the task is. It is totally depends on the teachers to evaluate their students as teachers know well who their students are.
Besides that, teacher also can create a student centered environments in the classroom in a way to apply this theory. Teachers can let each students got scope to engage in the task given, either individually or in groups. If students in the class come from different intellectual level, teachers can divide the students according to their intellectual level so that they will not mentally affected and having low self esteem when they work in the group. If this happens, the objective of learning cannot be achieved as teachers cannot evaluate every student’s progression and understanding level about the lesson. An example for this theory application is teaching how to make PowerPoint during ICT lesson. Teachers should let every students produce their own PowerPoint on specific topic after giving them the instruction about it. If there are not enough facilities like computer, teachers can divide the students into several groups regarding their intellectual level. Teachers can observe and acknowledge every student to participate in the group discussion, the process of producing the PowerPoint and the presentation of their work for the teacher to evaluate and reflect.
Other than that, teachers also can build one system for students to submit and show the progress of their task’s work. This is very important because not all tasks can be start and finish at one or two lesson period at school. Sometimes it can take a few months for the task to be complete by students. By build one platform like this, teacher can review student’s progress continuously and motivate them to keep working to get the right result. For example, when teacher teach English essays writing by giving the full mind map of the essay’s points. Teachers can ask students to email their essays writing after they finish it to the teachers so that it can be reviewed and evaluated. If the essays are not good enough, teachers can ask the students to modify back to get the good essays. This way will create fast and effective learning process as students get fast feedback from the teacher no matter where they are.
Lastly, teachers should make sure all the facilities for students to use in order to finish their task as stated in the instructions are in good condition and user friendly. This is very important as one of the motivate factor for them to complete the task successfully. The facilities like computers, reference book, internet connection and skill tools should be pleasant. At school, the lesson can be done not just inside the classroom, but also in the science laboratory and computer room. The facilities that students need are very important to make this theory works on the learning process as students need to do and complete the task on their own.
As conclusion, this Reigeluth (1996) Instructional Design Theory helps lots in teacher’s daily learning process. This theory are so flexible and can be apply onto different kind of students who come from large range of education, intellectual, personality, ability level and background.
Teacher also can prepare various kind of task for different student’s intellectual level. Regarding this theory, the correct final result of the task is not so important because it highlights more on the student’s progression to solve the task. As a teachers whom dealing with different kind of student’s intellectual level, teacher need to be more alert and flexible to achieve learning objective. The difficult level should be lower for the back classes but still referring to the same learning objective with the in front classes task. The time given also need to be longer for the back classes if the students need more time as long as they are able to reach the goal of the task. For example is our current School Based Assessment (PBS). Teacher need to be more flexible to test their students of different intellectual background. The task can be easy, moderate or difficult as long as it is still under the learning objective. What the most important thing of the PBS task is students should be able to achieve the learning objective of the lesson by scoring the good band, no matter how the task is. It is totally depends on the teachers to evaluate their students as teachers know well who their students are.
Besides that, teacher also can create a student centered environments in the classroom in a way to apply this theory. Teachers can let each students got scope to engage in the task given, either individually or in groups. If students in the class come from different intellectual level, teachers can divide the students according to their intellectual level so that they will not mentally affected and having low self esteem when they work in the group. If this happens, the objective of learning cannot be achieved as teachers cannot evaluate every student’s progression and understanding level about the lesson. An example for this theory application is teaching how to make PowerPoint during ICT lesson. Teachers should let every students produce their own PowerPoint on specific topic after giving them the instruction about it. If there are not enough facilities like computer, teachers can divide the students into several groups regarding their intellectual level. Teachers can observe and acknowledge every student to participate in the group discussion, the process of producing the PowerPoint and the presentation of their work for the teacher to evaluate and reflect.
Other than that, teachers also can build one system for students to submit and show the progress of their task’s work. This is very important because not all tasks can be start and finish at one or two lesson period at school. Sometimes it can take a few months for the task to be complete by students. By build one platform like this, teacher can review student’s progress continuously and motivate them to keep working to get the right result. For example, when teacher teach English essays writing by giving the full mind map of the essay’s points. Teachers can ask students to email their essays writing after they finish it to the teachers so that it can be reviewed and evaluated. If the essays are not good enough, teachers can ask the students to modify back to get the good essays. This way will create fast and effective learning process as students get fast feedback from the teacher no matter where they are.
Lastly, teachers should make sure all the facilities for students to use in order to finish their task as stated in the instructions are in good condition and user friendly. This is very important as one of the motivate factor for them to complete the task successfully. The facilities like computers, reference book, internet connection and skill tools should be pleasant. At school, the lesson can be done not just inside the classroom, but also in the science laboratory and computer room. The facilities that students need are very important to make this theory works on the learning process as students need to do and complete the task on their own.
As conclusion, this Reigeluth (1996) Instructional Design Theory helps lots in teacher’s daily learning process. This theory are so flexible and can be apply onto different kind of students who come from large range of education, intellectual, personality, ability level and background.
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