TEACHING PROCEDURES
What Are Procedures?
The Anatomy of a Directive Lesson
The Lesson Introduction
The Supporting Topics
The Task Steps
Performance Support for Procedures
Reference Support for Procedural Tasks
What Can Go Wrong With Procedural Training?
CHAPTER 12
Teaching Procedures
• Give the learner immediate feedback.
• Break down the task into small steps.
• Repeat the directions as many times as possible.
• Work from the most simple to the most complex tasks.
• Give positive reinforcement.
—Technology of Teaching (Skinner, 1968)
Sound familiar? These instructional prescriptions were written in the 1960s by Skinner, the father of behaviorist ...
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