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For most teachers, standard curriculum often will not achieve the goal of maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of instruction in both the curricular and extracurricular settings. This means that the point of education can be lost on the student while the teacher can lose his sense of professional competency. Fortunately, you can apply the principles of the instructional design process in the creation of instructional materials that will overcome the abovementioned issue.

The Process
There are many models of the instructional design process but the most common and popular is the ADDIE Model. It has been successful in many learning situations and can also be applied in your student’s case.
Keep in mind that each step builds on the others—that is, that the results of a prior step become the starting point for the next step. The five steps are as follows.
* Analysis – You must identify the instructional problem and establish the goals and objectives, with emphasis on the present learning environment and knowledge base of the students.
* Design – You need to adapt this step with a systematic and specific mindset. As such, your planned instructional strategies must have logical order and attention to details in all aspects.
* Development – You have to test the prototype made from the design phase through various means, which include assembly of contents, feedback from prospective recipients and implementers, debugging of potential problems, and technology integration, to name a few. The end product, of course, will be the instructional materials and activities ready for use in the next phase.
* Implementation – You will then distribute and deliver on the end product from the development phase. This is the penultimate test of the success of the process undertaken.
* Evaluation – You must evaluate yourself as well as the instructional strategies developed, created, and implemented in the first four steps. This way, you can improve on the process while learning from your oversights.
As you may have observed, you have already been unconsciously using the ADDIE Model in the development of your lesson plans. With the instructional design process, you are simply making conscious decisions to adopt previously unconscious actions.

Also, you will have to consciously, even professionally, study the effective ways with which to adopt the instructional design process. This way, you won’t shortchange yourself and your students.

The Benefits
There are many benefits to be had from the instructional design process, which include the following:
* It can speed up the process of learning, and hence provide for more time for students to engage in related activities like writing their learning logs for the day.
* It facilitates better communication amongst teachers and students since the process requires feedback on both sides.
* It ensures that all the pieces in the learning process fit into and with each other seamlessly so that no area of instruction is left to chance.

Of course, since the instructional design process can be used in virtually any learning situation, you have an effective tool with which to pass on learning to many types of students. Think of it as an all-in-one teacher’s aid!
You can use the instructional design process to suit your own needs and promote your own advantage. The trick is in its appropriate implementation, as any instructional method, no matter how well intentioned, is only good in the hands of a competent professional.

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