Ch 7 Cognitive and Instruction

As I was reading this chapter under Research on Teaching and Teacher planning and decision making, many things kept on popping into my mind about how the decisions I made when I was trying to teach teachers how to used photo story in the classroom. I had to give a training to teachers and I had this plan in my mind on how I was going to deliver my instructions and everything would work out how I wanted it to. The teachers would learn how to use photo story fairly easy but then when I had my first session with teachers not everything went according to plan. Some motivational concerns I had to deal with were that some teachers were more tech savvy than others and some teachers had already used photo story, while others did not have a clue how to use it. To make a long story short, I had three sessions that day and I think my last session was the best one I delivered because I kept on modifying my teaching methods and took out things that didn't work and added things that did work. My question to the class is has anyone done this before in their instruction? Have you delivered a lesson to one class and found that if you tried a different approach with another class more students will understand the objective you are trying to teach?