Analysis Stage

During the first week of class I must admit I felt a little overwhelmed. Now that I have had a chance to look at the readings and view the power points from the class, I am able to see what was learned, or should I say what I remembered, how this will be used in our group project, and how am I going to use this in my own classroom.

Even though Monday's class was intense and filled with a lot of information, I was able to come home with a better understanding of the Analysis stage as well as its importance. In our project we are creating a curriculum for a group of kids that we don't have, so when working on the project I will be thinking of the students I had this last year in school. With last year's students in mind I will identify some of the academic, specific, and learning styles.
Our group has decided to use the Weather standard in the Science curriculum for the fourth grade. I have already decided to work on a simple weather objective to do a task analysis diagram on (it's still a work in progress). These are a few things that I have tried to work with from Monday's classes.

I think that now that our team has a clearer idea of where to start, in terms of the analysis stage of ADDIE, we can begin with confidence. We plan on discussing and working through the objectives that we have chosen in the science curriculum, and I will enjoy the task analysis portion of the procedure.

I can already see how I could apply these techniques in future lessons plans in my classroom. I've never had the ability to analyze the learning characteristics of my students in a way that is effective in the classroom. What little chance I did have to do this did not yield lasting results in my instruction because of my lack of organization. Looking at these ways to organize the different characteristics of my students, i.e. specific characteristics and learning styles, will help in directing my instruction. I also see the benefit of using task analysis, especially with the students that are not performing at a 4th grade level. It gives me a visual of where the disconnect is in their understanding and prior knowledge.