Denny Clifford's Case Study

In Denny Clifford’s case, as appeared in Ertmer and Cennamo (2014), Dr. Oakes, a professor of science education who believes in constructivist approach, intends to develop professional development materials for teachers who are assigned to teach science without the necessary training or interest in the subject. She has previously developed a social constructivist science curriculum that required pairs of students to solve a set of scientific problems from the curriculum and then share their problem-solving strategies in large group discussions. Now, she would like to devise science materials corresponding to that curriculum for teachers. Specifically, the purpose of this instructional design is to help middle school science teachers to:

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Oakes’ workshops and conducting some interviews with the available teachers and Dr. Oakes. However, what I would definitely do is conducting the goal analysis proposed by Morrison et al. (2011). The three “goals” that Dr. Oakes suggested are actually aims in this analysis for each of which we need to set goals. The following is a list of tentative goals for the above aims. In the real world, the initial draft of goals would be drawn from Dr. Oakes’ articles and the designer’s own …show more content…
Therefore, according to my own experience with studying online collaborative game-based learning environments, a task-centered instructional strategy, as defined by Branch and Merrill (2012), the best strategy would be to develop authentic problem-solving tasks for each goal and ask the learners to do them in groups. The tasks can range from online immersive science games to simulated classrooms that resemble the situations they would face in their classroom and challenge their relevant teaching skills. The learners can connect to their teammates via text or voice chat. I would also include visual charts and markers that show learners’ progress in order to further motivate them to revisit the