How Does Instructional Design Impact P-12 Student Learning?

I personally have not taught any lessons yet but I have been given the opportunities to observe different grade group teachers on various subject topics. I have noticed that a lot of the teachers use verb tense statements for their students. "I can...", "I will..."...these statements set a foundation in the student's mind of what their research and brainstorming needs to build upon. The students can see what their expectation outcomes should be.

Observing other teachers, I have noticed that having the students engaged in a high impact learning activity centered on a common outcome, helps with engagement. Rather than given a worksheet to be assessed on with their knowledge of a lesson, the teacher provides a hands on learning activity that can be related to a life skill for the student to apply to their daily life. I would try to have different centers of activities for learning about the lesson in different formats because there will always be some students who draw in information differently than his or her partner.

I believe with a well planned out and smooth design lesson plan, a unit can be taught and successfully learned in an effective and efficient way. A good instructional design unit is mapped out to meet all learning needs, for all students in the classroom. I think this type of design has a positive approach on each different type of student if the teacher takes enough time to map out an effective lesson plan based on goals the teacher has for his or her instruction. Having a classroom full of engaged minds is a teacher's dream for each of their units. With instructional design, a teacher can step back and tweak what needs to be tweaked or eliminate and replace what needs to be out of the lesson based on the learning outcomes of the students and how they processed and successfully or non-successfully reached the goals for that specific lesson.