Strategies for Instructional Material Development for Interpersonal Skills

General Strategies:
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Strategies for Specific Topics within the Interpersonal Domain
A. Instructional Design Strategies to affect Conflict Resolution

B. Instructional Design Strategies to affect Team Building

C. Instructional Design Strategies to affect Leadership

D. Instructional Design Strategies to affect Social Behavior

Instructional Materials: Strategies to Create, Select, Obtain or Develop for Interpersonal Domain Training
Motivation and decision making should be built in to the materials being developed. Develop the materials so that the instructor is not built into the process.

Determine if pre-existing materials exist that will fit your objectives. To evaluate existing materials:


 * adequate motivation
 * appropriate content
 * correct sequencing
 * all required information is present
 * contains practice exercises
 * feedback mechanism included
 * tests are available
 * directions are included
 * learner guidance is provided to permit moving from sequence to the next

If the materials lack one or more items, adapt to meet those needs if possible.

Selection of Media
Objectives - interpersonal skills (cull information from lesson that introduces what interpersonal skills are to remind what the instructional material must teach) Based upon backwards design (Wiggins & McTighe, 1998).

Materials:

contextualizing (collaboration, role play, case studies), multiple and varied perspectives

identifying learning performance standards - these performances guide the design of activities

assessment and rubrics

identifying tasks, sequencing, practice skills

pilot/feedback of materials

Audience (characteristics, prerequisite knowledge) - can only make use of prior knowledge when you know what that prior knowledge is; contextualizing helps link ideas to prior knowledge

Students bring experience unique to cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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Technical Requirements

Equipment

Facilities

Assessment