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How to Do It
Here are some suggestions about how to draft your modules:

1. Review the items on your relevant practice description,
along with the module objective.

2. Locate existing instructional materials that might be
useful, and compare them with the objective of the mod-
ule they will be intended for. Mark those pieces or pas-
sages that will be relevant. Put the name or number of
the objective on the appropriate passage (you should be
able to associate each instructional action with the
objective it is intended to accomplish).

3. Begin by writing the objective itself as it will be present-
ed to the students; i.e., use language the students will
understand at this point in their development.

4. Write the practice/feedback section (the back end) of the
module. Say where students should get the practice
equipment (if any) or other practice items they will
need; tell them what to do with these things, and tell
them how to evaluate their practice performance.

5. Write a description or describe a demonstration that will
show why it is important to the student to develop the
competence described by the objective. Remind students
of where this objective fits into the larger scheme of
things. (Note: Sometimes the importance of the objec-
tive is so obvious that little or nothing need be done
here. You can’t make a dead horse deader by beating it.)

6. If you will need to instruct before students will be ready
to practice, and if you will be presenting the instruction