Instructional Concepts
Using instructor skills to stimulate interest and encourage participants to actively engage with the course content.
What is Engagement?
Information given to a learner about their performance on a test or group project.
What is Feedback?
This theory says that adults can and want to learn.
What is Adult Learning Theory?
Using instructional strategies to meet challenging situations or issues.
What is Problem Solving?
An instructional method that focuses on participant sharing, with the instructor guiding a group discussion.
What is Facilitation?
The physical location where a course is being held, but also the instructors, participants, and materials.
What is Learning Environment?
Watching activities closely to provide a participant with feedback or clarification.
What is Observation?
When a participant is dominating a class discussion, and the instructor uses a break to ask them to help draw others into the conversation, they are using this instructor skill.
What is Behavior Management?
Selecting a course of action from available instructional options, to meet the needs of participants.
What is Decision-Making?
What is Instructional Methods?
An information collection tool, often in the form of a questionnaire or survey, that is used to assess the value of a course to participants.
What is Evaluation?
Effective “two‐way” communication where both the instructor and participant ensure that what is being said is understood.
What is Active Listening?
Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic are examples of this instructor skill, often used as an engagement tool.
What are Learning Styles/Learning Preferences?
Condensing a large amount of information into the most important points or ideas.
What is Summarizing?
An instructional method often chosen when teaching a physical skill.
What is Demonstration?
Determining the effectiveness of instruction by measuring how much learning has occurred at the conclusion of a course.
What is Learning Assessment or Summative Assessment?
The ability to adjust to changing, often unexpected conditions in the Learning Environment.
What is Adaptability?
Making fun of someone’s opinion violates this instructor skill.
What is Inclusiveness?
Taking all aspects of a particular course into consideration and using that information to make effective instructional choices.
What is Critical Thinking?
An instructional method commonly used with participants who are not familiar with the topic.
What is Lecture?
A specific type of Learning Assessment that is used during the course of instruction, allowing for the modification of instructional approach to assure that learning has occurred. Be specific!
What is Formative Assessment?
When an instructor summarizes what a participant has said, and asks if they have understood correctly, they are using this skill.
What is Active Listening?
Moving to the side of the room where you notice side conversation, while giving a lecture, is an example of this instructor skill.
What is Behavior Management?
Participant knowledge, number of participants, course design, and delivery modality (live or online) should all be considered when using this skill to plan a course delivery.
What is Critical Thinking?
An instructional method best used with participants who have some knowledge on the topic.
What is Faciliation?