Master of Teaching (Primary) - Instructional Design Principles and Strategies

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Part 1
In the article by Linnenbrink-Garcia, Patall, and Pekrun (2016), five principles of
instructional designs have been discussed that would guide the educators and the policy makers.
The instructional designs that has to be used are a) student’s feeling of competence b) enhance
the autonomy, c) use personally relevant and the active tasks d) emphasizing on the learning and
de-emphasizing social comparison and e) encouraging feelings of belongings. These
instructional principles can be used for guiding students and to constrict any curriculum for any
grade.
Creative writing is a part of the curriculum for grade 5, where children are made to use
some fairytale convention. While writing creatively, a student can engage in an exercise that
would allow the students to truly develop their own voice and perspectives without any
consequential limitations. While writing creatively, one might worry coming across as an
authority or a reliable source. Creative writing in initial stages engage in self-expression. Hence,
in order to increase creativity in child, student should be given autonomy while choosing topics
for writing. Teaching about the basic grammatical skills are also an important part of the syllabus
of this grade. Good grammatical skills assists students in essay or report writing and most
importantly creative writing. Another current trend of technology in education is a flipped
classroom model that alter the learning process. In a flipped classroom concept the students
usually learn by watching video contents outside the normal class hours and continue with the
group dialogue among the peers and the instructors. As it has been already stated, that creative
writing needs imagination and excellent vocabulary and grammatical skills. Videos can be used
to teach grammatical skills. Animations can be very good options for teaching grammar. The
main aim would be to construct a blended a blended learning environment. Video lectures can be

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made to motivate the students for watching, learning and engage in online discussions among
themselves regarding the video lessons. In order to retain, the attention of the students, short
video lectures can also be used from free websites. According to Zainuddin and Perera, (2019)
these kind of pedagogical methods is an emergent learning trend that would eventually enter the
mainstream education. These instructional methods would generate a sense of being and
belongingness in children. Group discussion with the peers would boost up confidence in
students. Linnenbrink-Garcia, Patall and Pekrun, (2016) have stated that promotion of autonomy
is not a one-off activity. Technological advancements like ipads, e-readers like Kindle can be
used for interactive reading, which can be a wonderful feature for the English learners. Simple
tools like dictionary, and thesaurus can be helpful to the students to increase their vocabulary,
while the spelling and grammar can be used to correct the errors. Many new tools can be used to
promote autonomy in students. Interactive learning with improved retention, including a team-
based learning projects, flip classrooms and discussion groups that would facilitate the students
to take an upper hand in learning (Gilboy, Heinerichs & Pazzaglia, 2015).