Writing Training Materials That Work: How to Train Anyone to Do Anything

Chapter 5. Teaching Facts

LINK AND ORGANIZE

Recall (from Chapter 1)

• Facts are one type of declarative knowledge

• A fact is a simple association among a set of verbal and/or visual propositions.

Relate to What You Already Know

• Facts as we refer to them are exactly the same as facts in the Gagne categorization (and all others derived from Gagne, such as Dick & Carey).

• Examples of facts you already know are:

  • On a traffic light, red means stop, green means go, and yellow means prepare to stop.

  • In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain and landed in the Caribbean; he was not the first to do so, nor did he discover America.

Structure of Content

• See Figure 5.1.

Objectives

• To describe what facts are.

• To apply general strategies for teaching facts.

• To design a lesson ...