INTERACTIVE NOTES #1

INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING, DEFINITION, PRINCIPLE, & COMPONENTS

INSTRUCTIONS: Pls watch the video attentively. As you watch it, write down your notes in
this template. Remember that your course facilitator will check for keywords in your
Interactive Notes that were mentioned during the lecture.

1. INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING
1.1. The ability to visualize into the future. In your mind, you create, organize and
design events that might happen in your classroom. Basically, you try to preempt
what might happen and in the course, you make decisions on how to do and what
to do when things actually happen.
1.2. It also refers to the teachers or lecturers’ ability on what and how of teaching.
You will be more flexible in dealing with the situations and other stimulus that
might affect the teaching and learning process because you are aware with the
use of your foresight.

2. IMPORTANCE/ FUNCTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING

2.1. Provides an overview of instruction
 If you plan your lesson very well, it will give you a picture of the lesson for
an hour, for the day or for the year. Because of that, it will provide you a
degree of flexibility. It’s very important because it will teach you how to
strategize. You will have an idea what strategy fits best or not.
2.2.Facilitates good management and instruction
 When something happens, you will have a back up plan and you will have a
good management.
 You know how to address certain issues, like having a list of consequences
when a student breaks rules or you have steps or routine for students to
follow when something happens.
2.3.Makes learning purposeful
 When you have proper planning, it makes learning purposeful. You know
what learners are supposed to learn and you have an idea on how to take
them there. The students will be aware on what they need to accomplish
and learn which will give them a sense of purpose, increasing their
motivation.
 It will give you time to reflect on what to include or exclude in the lesson.
2.4. Provides for sequencing and pacing
 There are times when you have a lot of content that you want to share. If
you plan very well, you will be able to chunk these contents and choose
what are important for a specific audience and time.
 Should you go faster? Should you slow down for this certain topic?
  If it’s difficult, you can slow down. If it’s easy, you can go faster without
giving examples.
2.5. Economizes time
 Time is important in the teaching and learning process.
 When you plan your instruction well, you can make time your friend and
not a foe. You can decide how much time you can use on a particular topic.
 You won’t be out of time.
 You budget the time that is given to you to make the best of what you
have, sharing the most important information in a given time.
2.6. Makes learners’ success more measurable which assists in reteaching
 You have a set objective which lets the learners know where to go.
 You have a targeted feedback.
 It makes success more measurable because you plan it very well. Because
it’s measurable and goal-oriented, it will be easier for you when you
reteach the topic.
2.7. Provides for a variety of instructional objectives
 You will be able to think of the best cognitive objective, psychomotor
objective, and affective objective.
 A learner is a holistic individual and for you to make sure that learning
takes place holistically which means you need to have a variety of
instructional objectives.
2.8. Creates opportunity for higher level questioning
 Higher level questioning is intentional in nature which needs thorough
planning.
 You can ask your students higher level questions.
2.9. Assists in ordering supplies
 Two types: Physical and Facilities
 You will be able to utilize the supplies that are available.
 If you plan ahead of time, you can exclude the supplies that are not
available
 If you plan ahead of time, you can buy or pre-order the supplies that you
need when they are not available.
2.10.Guides substitute teachers
 If unthinkable happens, we are prepared to face them.

3. VARIABLES IN INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING (BROWN, 1988)

3.1. Teacher – main curriculum developer; his attitudes, beliefs, personal
philosophy and content background as a teacher or a lecturer affects how he
plans his/her instructions
3.2. Students - must be considered in instructional planning; they have different
ages, backgrounds, interests, knowledge and motivational levels
3.3. Content - what you will be teaching affects instructional planning; influences
the planning process, considering what the teacher will teach; adjustments
are made depending on the difficulty level of the content
3.4. learning content - we focus on the skills and competencies that we need the
students to develop
3.5. Material/ resources – the teacher must be flexible on what to use when
materials are not available
3.6. Time – it affects the sequence of the program; if you have a short time, you
need to think about how to teach the lesson within the time that was given.