Lesson 4: Developing an Instructional Strategy

A lesson plan is a detailed guide outlining your strategy for teaching your learning objectives. Creating a lesson plan involves developing the activities and materials you will use for your instruction. There are various ways to create a lesson plan, you will learn how to create one using Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction but slightly modified to use terminology found in Dick and Carey's Systems Approach Model for Designing Instruction. The instructional strategy component of the Dick and Carey model is influenced by Gagné's Nine Events. It differs in how it organizes the events into five learning components:

1. Pre-Instructional Activities
2. Content Presentation
3. Learner Participation
4. Assessment
5. Follow-thru Activities

We will work through developing a lesson plan using Dick and Carey's components.

Throughout this section, you will have the opportunity to develop a lesson plan for your webinar topic. You can download the Webinar Lesson Plan Template to guide you through the exercise. The first step is to enter the topic of your instruction, goal statement, and learning objectives you developed in Lesson 3.