1. Gagne and Driscoll Chapter 6
Planning Instruction
Gagne and Driscoll
Chapter 6

2. Instruction has two parts:
Planning
Delivery

3. This chapters deals with “Planning”
Scope
Course
Topics
Arrangement of instruction by
Timelines
Outlines of textbooks
Or by Elaboration

4. Three strategies to increase learning
1. Use elaboration
2. Identify multiple learning goals
3. Arrange the sequence of prerequisites skills

5. 1. Elaboration: The Model
Elaboration Model of Instruction (Reigeluth 83)
1. Each lesson contains an “epitome”
Overview of the simplest or most fundamental ideas of the lesson
2. Added to the epitome are “elaborations”
Contribute detail and show relationships
3. Then supply “supportive ideas” to enrich the structure
4 .Then Summarize
5. And Synthesize

6. 2. Multiple learning goals
Verbal info., intellectual skills, motor, etc,
Identified in the Instructional Analysis
All must be planned and delivered

7. 3. Why sequence prerequisite skills?
Directly supports and increases learning
I.e., Intellectual skills require prior learning of simpler skills
Types of prerequisite skills
Enabling
Supportive

8. Planning Instructions
Follow Gagne’s Events of Instructions
1. Gaining attention
2. Informing the learner of the objective
3. Stimulating recall of prior learning
4. Presenting the stimulus
5. Providing learning guidance
6. Eliciting performance
7. Providing feedback
8. Assessing performance
9. Enhancing retention and transfer

9. Summary Instruction includes Use Elaboration Theory to present content
planning and
delivery
Use Elaboration Theory to present content
Sequence skills and sub-skills
Use Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction to structure the learning environment