Page 253 - Making Instruction Work

chap 20 3/11/97 5:17 PM Page 239

20

Implementing the

Instruction

Situation: Everything has been prepared, you’re pre-
pared, and students are about to arrive.

Now you’re ready to begin the instruction. You may do it
primarily through lecture, through a self-paced format,
through a “distance learning” format, through computer or
video, or through some combination of these formats. These
delivery formats tend to clump themselves into two basic vari-
ations:
1. Instructor-controlled, where the instructor controls the
flow of events (e.g., lectures in the classroom, lectures by
video), and

2. Performance-controlled, where learning activities are
controlled by student progress toward accomplishment
of an objective (e.g., usually through self-paced for-
mats).