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Gagne's Nine Events of Instructions

Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction provides a structured framework for developing and delivering educational content, emphasizing the importance of aligning instructional activities with predefined course goals and learning objectives.

Gagne's Nine Events of Instructions

Gagne's Nine Events of Instructions

Gagné’s nine events of instruction can help you build a framework to prepare and deliver instructional content while considering and addressing conditions for learning.

Ideally, you should prepare course goals and learning objectives before implementing the nine events—the goals and objectives will help situate the events in their proper context.

The nine events of instruction can then be modified to fit both the content and students’ level of knowledge.

Main topic

Enhance retention and transfer

Help learners retain more information by providing them opportunities to connect course concepts to potential real-world applications

Avoid isolating course content

Associate course concepts with prior (and future) concepts and build upon prior (and preview future) learning to reinforce connections

incorporate questions throughout

Continually incorporate questions from previous tests in subsequent examinations to reinforce course information.

convert infors

Have students convert information learned in one format into another format (e.g. verbal or

visuospatial). For instance, requiring students to create a concept map to represent connections between ideas (Halpern & Hakel, 2003, p. 39).

promote deep learning

clearly articulate your lesson goals, use your specific goals to guide your instructional design, and align learning activities to lesson goals (Halpern & Hakel, 2003, p. 41).

Assess performance

Test whether the expected learning outcomes have been achieved on previously stated course objectives



Implement a variety of assessment methods to provide students with multiple

opportunities to demonstrate proficiency.


At this point you have been providing feedback and evaluating understanding throughout the instruction so you now consider providing summative evaluation as a way to tie everything together. Assessment should tie to objectives and be suited to the types of outcomes go here for example.

Example:

Have a person explain a chemical process they perform involving a reaction. Then have them characterize the waste, write a waste label and choose an appropriate container for storing the waste.

Gagne, R. (1985). The Conditions of Learning (4th.). New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

administer pre and post test

to check for progression of competency in content or skills

embed Formative

throughout instruction using oral questioning, short active learning activities, or quizzes

implement a variety of assessment methods

to provide students with multiple opportunities to demonstrate proficiency

craft objective, effective rubrics

to assess written assignments, projects, or presentations

Provide feedback

Provide timely feedback of students’ performance to assess and facilitate learning and to allow students to identify gaps in understanding before it is too late.


This is something that should be ongoing; not just performed at the end of training. Feedback should be specific, not just “you are doing a good job.” Explain why they performed well. Provide specific suggestion to improve

“You did a great job of inspecting the harness and donning your gear. The only thing to keep in mind is to perform a few stretches to make sure the fit is still good. Then readjust the harness. Take your time with stretches. A good fit is being able to….” they are doing a good job and/or provide specific guidance.”

Confirmatory Feedback

the student that they did what they were supposed to do. This typeof feedback does not tell the student what she needs to improve, but it encourages the learner.

Evaluative Feedback

apprises the student of the accuracy of their performance or response but does

not provide guidance on how to progress.

Remedial Feedback

directs students to find the correct answer but does not provide the correct

answer.

Descriptive analytic feedback

provides the student with suggestions, directives, and information to help them improve their performance.

Peer and self evaluation

learners identify learning gaps and performance shortcomings in their own and peers’ work.

Elicit Performance Practice

Have students apply what they have learned to reinforce new skills and knowledge and to confirm correct understanding of course concepts.


Let learners practice the newly acquired skill. This doesn’t mean asking multiple choice questions that abstract or approximate decisions. Better is to provide actual situations (even if scenarios) that help the learner position the learning into the context of real work. This can be to practice problem solving, practice performance tasks, and of course hands-on tasks or procedures. Often this is positioned at the end of instruction as a measure to

asses learning, but should be positioned as part of the upfront instructional activities. There is no reason to expect that a person will be able to perform a hands-on assessment when only provided lecture instruction. It is a misalignment of expectation, and practice is best positioned as part of instruction.


It is also important to provide immediate feedback as corrective measures to steer learning and allow person to fine tune. Feedback should be supportive and encouraging throughout. The idea overall is simple and common sense. Practice and supportive feedback is an efficient way to develop new skills and knowledge and the instructor is well positioned to guide practice

Facilitate student activities

e.g. ask deep-learning questions, have students collaborate with their peers, facilitate practical laboratory exercises

provide formative assessment

e.g. written assignments, individual or group projects, presentations

design quizzes and test

i.e. test students in ways that allow them to demonstrate their comprehension and application of course concepts (as opposed to simply memorization and recall)

Provide learning Guidance

Help the students learn how to learn


Modeling is key. You should model a task (skill demonstration), problem solving, and functions or operations. Modeling is a highly efficient and effective teaching method that is often overlooked with the rise of PowerPoint. This includes "talking out loud" while demonstrating. Modeling eliminates learners' false assumptions about how to do something, reducing frustration when they practice or solve something based on poorly understood concepts.


Example:

Instead of explaining and showing pictures (using Power Point) for how to inspect a multimeter or a radiological survey instrument, simply show and model the process using the actual instruments. We often fall into patterns of using PowerPoint out of convenience, when more times than not it interferes with the end goal of instruction. Arranging the learning environment to align with this type of instruction is easy to do, and once you start, you begin to value this approach, and at the same time, students become more involved (real performance is better than mental approximations or visual representations).

instructional suppor i.e. scaffolding

scaffolding that can be removed slowly as the student

learns and masters the task or content

model varied learnings

e.g. mnemonics, concept mapping, role playing, visualizing

use examples non examples

examples help students see what to do,

while non-examples help students see what not to do

Provide case studies visual images, analogies, metaphors

Case studies provide real world application,

visual images assist in making visual associations, and analogies and metaphors use

familiar content to help students connect with new concepts

Present the content

Use strategies to present and cue lesson content to provide more effective instruction. Organize and group content in meaningful ways, and provide explanations after demonstrations.

The following are ways to present and cue lesson content:


Sequence and chunk the information to avoid cognitive overload. Sequencing is a difficult process of providing a scaffolded approach to learning (they need to know this before this, before this). It is commonly a challenge, but it is also an editing exercise with the aim of “Less is more” especially when you are presenting new content, or when having to learn how to do something differently that someone has been doing for a long time. Provide feedback often, and guage student understanding by introducing short knowledge checks, or asking questions. You want to validate understanding at each step (don’t assume) in order to determine the correct pace for teaching / learning.

present multiple versions of the same content ( video, demonstrations, lecture, etc)
Use variiety of media to engage students

Incorporate active learning strategies to keep students involved

Provide access to content on the board so students can access it ouside of class

Stimulate recall of Prior Learning

Help students make sense of new information by relating it to something they already know or something they have already experienced.

There are numerous methods for stimulating recall:



Stimulating prior learning and relating this to the new content helps facilitate learning. Comparing and contrasting with existing knowledge helps encode new information as it connects new information with existing mental schema stored in memory. This is a cognitive strategy having to do with information processing and encoding. One method is to use scaffolding which is a way to build/develop understanding incrementally.


It is also helpful to encourage note taking or to use visual maps. This process of note taking has an overall effectof .99, indicating a percentile gain of 34 points. Use of visual maps (connecting concepts) has a 39% percentile gain in achievement (Marzano, 1998). If you think about this yourself, when you take notes you are actively relating the new information to your existing knowledge as a sense-making activity. As the instructor you need to remember to pace instruction so that students are rushed but have time to make connections.

ask questions about previous experience
ASK questions about their understanding of previous concepts

Relate previous course infos to the current topic

Have students incorporate learning into current activities

Inform students of the Objectives

Inform students of the objectives or outcomes for the course and individual

lessons to help them understand what they are expected to learn and do.


Learning objectives are used by instructional designers to clarify what specifically the learner 

will be able to do as a result of completing the training. However, they also serve as a way to 

help students organize their thoughts and cue their attention on the goals of the course. However, 

you don’t need to use formal learning objectives (“You will be able to evaluate the effectiveness 

of shielding through visual examination”). Instead you can use less formal language or form the 

objective as a question. For example, you could rephrase the previous by stating “What are ways you 

can evaluate the effectiveness of shielding before performing your experiment”). The use of 

questions can help stimulate thinking and set up expectations for learning.


Marzano (1998, p.94) reported an effect size of 0.97 (which indicates that achievement can be 

raised by 34 percentile points) when goal specification is used. When students have some control 

over the learning outcomes, there is an effect size of 1.21 (39 percentile points). This suggest 

another point of interest which is allowing participants to choose what objectives to focus on. 

This sets relevance and involvement. For example “Here are five objectives for this training, which 

three do you think are the most important to your working safely, and

we’ll focus on those.”


required performance

Learning objectives are used by instructional designers to clarify what specifically the learner 

will be able to do as a result of completing the training. However, they also serve as a way to 

help students organize their thoughts and cue their attention on the goals of the course. However, you don’t need to use formal learning objectives (“You will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of shielding through visual examination”). Instead you can use less formal language or form the objective as a question. For example, you could rephrase the previous by stating “What are ways you can evaluate the effectiveness of shielding before performing your experiment”). The use of questions can help stimulate thinking and set up expectations for learning.


Marzano (1998, p.94) reported an effect size of 0.97 (which indicates that achievement can be 

raised by 34 percentile points) when goal specification is used. When students have some control over the learning outcomes, there is an effect size of 1.21 (39 percentile points). This suggest another point of interest which is allowing participants to choose what objectives to focus on. This sets relevance and involvement. For example “Here are five objectives for this training, which three do you think are the most important to your working safely, and we’ll focus on those.”


criteria for standard performance

have learners establish criteria for standard performance

inclued course objectives on assessment prompts

Gain student's attention

This is sometimes called priming. In some cases this is referred to as

providing an “ice breaker,” but it’s more than that. The goal is to get people more interested in learning by showing how the training is useful. It’s important to remember that in many cases, students are not attending training because they want to , but rather because they have to fulfill a requirement.

With this as the starting point, you want to turn the tide so that students se value and interest in the learning that will occur.

How?

  1. Explain how the training can be applied in day-to-day work (relevance).
  2. Showing how training is relevant and meaningful establishes motivation to learn and is a basic premise of adult learning.
  3. How will the newly acquired skill improve worker’s position, ability (save time, improve efficiency,improve safety?)
  4. Provide a problem to solve to stir interest.
  5. For example “Here is a person about to climb onto a roof using this ladder. What are three things they should do before climbing to be safe?” As the instructor you could guide this process and then tie it into the training to serve as an introduction. This puts the learner in the position of contributing which increases motivation.

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Stimulus to capture attention
novelty, uncertainty,surprise

pose thought provoking questions

allow peer questioning

lead an ice breaker activity