Instructional Design

Practice distribution scheduling is the planning of when learners practice a skill or review material, deciding whether sessions are packed

Independent practice planning is the process of designing the tasks students complete on their own after direct instruction, so that

Modeling and guided practice is a teaching sequence in which a teacher first demonstrates a skill while thinking aloud, then

Scaffolded learning pathways are planned sequences of tasks in which support is given at the start of a skill and

Progression of difficulty describes the deliberate ordering of tasks so that each one asks a little more of the learner

Concept map based planning is a lesson design approach in which a teacher first sketches the key ideas of a

Prerequisite knowledge mapping is a planning method that identifies which skills and facts a learner must already have before tackling

Hierarchy of skills design is a planning method in which a teacher arranges the skills a learner must master into

Learning task analysis is a method teachers and instructional designers use to examine a complex skill and break it into

Instructional scripting is the practice of writing out, in advance, what a teacher or instructional module will say, show, and