Chapter 11

Lesson Plans

Chapter Objectives

At the conclusion of this chapter, you should be able to

  • describe the nine events of instruction
  • provide examples of each of the nine events.

Almost everyone has heard of a lesson plan, instructor’s guide, teaching guide, course plan, or one of the other dozens of terms referring to the teaching tool that a facilitator uses to teach a course. Yet most instructional designers have spent very little time thinking about how lesson plans themselves are designed. There is a great deal of theory and design experience just below the surface when lesson plans are developed using the nine events of instruction. ...

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