Week 4 Assignment: Assessing an Instructional Session

Due: Sunday night at 11:59pm Mountain Time

For this week’s assignment, you will observe a teaching session and assess it based on theories covered in this course thus far.

Observe a teaching session for at least 60 minutes. The teaching session could be an in-service at your place of work or classroom instruction in an academic setting. After the observation, write a 4-5-page, 1200-1500 word paper addressing all of the following:

• Summarize the session, including the topics covered and the mode of instruction used
• Analyze the session on the following topics. Please provide clear examples of instruction, or areas of improvement
  
  • Describe activities the educator used during the instructional session that reflected components of the Kolb Learning Cycle Download Kolb Learning Cycle. Did the educator use activities in just one area of the circle, or was the teaching varied (activities from all four areas)?
  • Did the educator include embodied learning, spiritual practice, multiculturalism, or any other concepts found in Chapters 9 and 10 in the adult learning text?  If not, how could one or more of these topics have been incorporated? 
  • Did the educator use all four parts of the ARCS Model of Motivational Design Links to an external site.? If yes, provide examples.  If not, how would you recommend incorporating the missing components into the educational session?
  • Describe some of the motivational strategies from Wlodkowski's Integrated Levels of Adult Motivation Download Wlodkowski's Integrated Levels of Adult Motivation observed during the teaching session.
• Describe potential barriers to learning that you observed.
• Overall, how would you rate the effectiveness of this session and why? 

  Cite all sources in APA format.  Minimum of 4 professional resources.