Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction

Gain Attention

• To help learners develop expertise, they must internalize new knowledge.

• Activate student processing to help them internalize new skills and knowledge and

  to confirm correct understanding of these concepts

• Ensure the learners are ready to learn and participate in activities by presenting a stimulus to gain their attention.

Inform Learners of Objective

• Inform students of the objectives or outcomes to help them understand what they are to learn during the course

• Use strategies to present and cue lesson content to provide more effective, efficient instruction

• Advise students of strategies to aid them in learning content and of resources

  available.

Stimulate Recall of Prior Learning

• Activate student processing to help them internalize new skills and knowledge and to confirm correct understanding of these concepts

• Help students make sense of new information by relating it to something they already know or something they have already experienced

• To help learners develop expertise, they must internalize new knowledge

Present the Content

• Organize and chunk content in a meaningful way. Provide explanations after demonstrations.

• Ask students to recite, revisit, or reiterate

  information they have learned

• Provide case studies for real world application, analogies for knowledge construction,visual images to make visual associations, metaphors to support learning

Provide Learning Guidance

• Advise students of strategies to aid them in learning content and of resources available

• Use strategies to present and cue lesson content to provide more effective, efficient instruction

• Ask students about their understanding of previous concepts

Elicit Performance (Practice)

• Ask deep-learning questions, make reference

  to what students already know or have students collaborate with their peers

• Informs the student they did what he or she

  were supposed to do

• Activate student processing to help them internalize new skills and knowledge and to confirm correct understanding of these concepts

Provide the Feedback

• Identify normative-referenced performances which compares one

  student to another student

• Provide immediate feedback of students’ performance to assess and facilitate learning

• In addition to providing examples,

  use non-examples to help students see what not to do or the opposite of examples

Assess Performance

• In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the instructional events, you must test to see if the expected learning outcomes have been achieved

• Provides the student with suggestions,recommendations, and information for them to correct their performance

• Provide content in a context-rich way (use real-world examples)

Enhance Retention and Transfer to the Job

• Include objective or criterion-referenced performances which measure how well a student has learned a topic

• To help learners develop expertise, they must internalize new knowledge

• Identify normative-referenced performances which compares one

  student to another student