Why design instruction?

Instructional design is a means for solid decision making for any course. Education has a broad range of topics and the designing process allows an application of who, what, when, where, why, and how of training. These questions can guide standards for systematic approaches such as Performance-Base Training and Criterion Referenced Instruction. Education is always evolving and these approaches provide a support of materials to meet the ever-changing requirements.

Designing instruction is the foundation to any teachers’ classroom. It is important when a teacher walks in the room he/she is prepared to facilitate instruction. This allows a teacher to research strategies as well as an appropriate structure for teaching their content. Another important factor to designing instruction is the ability to create multiple instructional methods that may work better with specific students in a classroom. It would be unfortunate to teach a class and discover another method would be better suited and not have that method in hand. Designing instruction can assist in maximizing teachers’ instructional time and decrease confusing statements during instruction.