THE ASSURE MODEL 👩🏻🏫
Analyze Learners 🤔
State Objectives 📰
Select Media & Materials 💻
Utilize Media & Materials 📋
Require Learner Response 👥
Evaluate & Revise ✒
Analyzing learners is the initial step of ASSURE and also crucial for other steps to develop properly. Identifiying the audience and having a special plan compatible with learners' needs.
General
Characteristics:
-Sex
-Economic Status
-Emotional Status
-Physical and Mental Status (any kind of disabilty and learning difficulties.)
-Social Problems
Entry Compantcies:
Define what your learners already learned.
Learning Styles:
Each student is unique and thus, each of them has special learning styles. Therefore; as a teacher it is important to benefit from various types of learning styles such as:
-Verbal
-Logical
-Musical
-Visual
-Interpersonal
-Bodily
-Intrapersonal
-Existentialist
-Naturalist
(Gardner, 1999)
Objectives can be defined as aims of the lecture and constitute learning outcomes. Learning outcomes are the desired behaviors, skills and knowledge that should be acquiered after the class. Thus, when writing the objectives they should be explicitly and appropriately stated. For accomplish this, there are a few steps to follow.
KFD Principle:
Know- What do you want from learners to know? ➯ Cognitive Learning
Feel- What do you want from learners to feel?➯ Affective Learning
Do- What do you want from learners to do?➯ Psychomotor Learning
S.M.A.R.T.
Learning outcomes should be ➯
-Specific
-Measurable
-Attainable
-Relevant
-Time Sensitive
The ABCD Principle
Audience➯ Target group of people that would be affected and learned from lecture.
Behavior➯Desired behaviors from the learners as a consequence of the lecture.
Condition➯Precise situation which the behavior will be observed.
Degree➯ To what extend the behavior should be acquiered.
An Example for a Well-Stated Learning Outcome
Sixth grade students (Audience) to match numbers with pictures (Behavior) with at least 8 out of ten accuracy (Degree) while listening a daily routine monolog (Condition).
After analyzing the learners and state objectives, now it is time for how to implement them in the classroom. Media and meterai selection effects the whole learning and teaching process, so teachers should be careful about choosing the most suitable ones for faciliating the subject better.
Having determined the media and materials which shape and create a more enjoyable learning process for students, checking and trying them before the lecture is another essential step of ASSURE. Here are some steps to follow for how to utilize media and materials.
Method
Determine your method or methods, incorparating different methods can be more effective because they serve distinct learning styles (Smaldino & Russels, 2005)
Media
In this stage, a teacher chooses with which type of media she/he prefers to convey lecture. The media can be a text, presentation, visual, audio etc.
Materials
When it comes to materials, it is up to your creativity! There are plenty of choices such as selecting from those that already avaible, modifying them or creating a new one from starch.
Preview the Material
In advance of the lecture, it is important to test your material if they function properly or not. By doing so, you know what to do preciesly in the class and be sure of your plan or even you can re-plan your media and materials according to any malfunctioning case if you do not have a plan B!
Prepare the Materials
You have checked your materials, now practice with them, plan the lesson, evaluate how to use them and create an order among them.
Prepare the Environment
Every detail matters in a classroom.Windows, lightnings, outdoor noise, temparature, sitting plan and so on.Thus, preparing the environment compatible with your media and materials can be concluded as a necessity. For example, rearranging the seat order for a class presantation or a class discussion activity can be helpful for the presenter to be heard by all contributers.
Prepare the Learners
Give students a general view of the topic and provide motivating information about why they should learn the subject and how they can use the knowledge in their life. As an example, for the "Nationalities" unit you can state that after the course they can ask someone her/his nationality and thay can name the flags and learn more about different cultures around the world. In this way, you can call their attention to the topic and trigger their curiosity which will contribute learning afterwards.
For inviting all of the stundents to an active learning environment, you should give each of them equal opportunity to participate and get feedback during the lecture. There are 3 steps to follow.
Ask Questions
Pose general and easy to answer questions related with the topic to encourage learners to participate. For example when introducing animals you can show an image or mimic the animal and ask them to describe with adjectives that they know.
Provide Feedback
The value of providing feedback is common for lots of approaches and essential for their improvement.
Evaluating and revising the whole method is the final step of ASSURE which is often neglected but the foremost step (Faryadi, 2007). In this phase many aspects of the process is evaluated in detail and improvements for the next session is considered.
Evaluate Learners
This process sometimes can be conducted with just a paper and pen but there are other learning outcomes which should be evaluated in a long period and observed carefully.
Evaluate Media and Methods
From your previous experience, evaluate the effectiveness of media and methods and work on how to enhance them or replace them with more suitable one to your subject and environment.
Evaluate Instructor Performance
Think about your own performance, what were the good sides of the lecture and which of them need to be improved.
References
Heinich, S. E., Russell R., Smaldino J.D., (2005) Instructional Technology and Media for Learning.Pearson Press.
(http://pascapbi-3a.blogspot.com/2017/01/theassure-in-teaching-by-trihari-nurdi.html)
Ariefiani, Z., Kustono, D., Pathmantara, S. (2016). Module Development with Project Based Learning Approach and ASSURE development Model. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4965770
Faryadi, Q. (2007). Instructional Design Models: What a Revolution!,15(3).
(https://elearningindustry.com/6-tips-apply-assure-model-blended-learning)