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Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction

Robert Gagne was an American educational psychologist (1916-2002). He developed nine events of instruction that he believed were elements of great teaching or instruction. Gagne's nine events of instruction are also referred to as the Gagne assumption, and this has been widely used not only in the educational field, but the work and business fields as well. The family tree for this instructional model is represented below:
                    Family Tree

1. Learning Theory- Cognitivism
2. Embedded Theory- Classroom, work field, business field
3. Instructional model- Gagnes' Nine events of instruction

The link below will take you to a YouTube video explaining what the nine events of instruction actually are, how they can be used, and how they can be easily remembered (TEACH):

Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction

The following Mind Tools website breaks down each step of Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction, discusses their benefits, as well as how to use them within a corporation or business to train employees.

Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction:
1) Gain attention- good attention getter or movie
2) Inform the learner of the objective- make them aware of the standard or what they are going to be learning
3) Stimulate recall of prior knowledge- connect this objective with knowledge that they already have, tie it in
4) Present information- teach or present the information and allow them to do the rest
5) Provide Guidance- teacher, or  boss, acts as facilitator, guiding and directing
6) Elicit performance- This helps their performance throughout the task and meeting the objective
7) Provide feedback- give appropriate feedback to the students or employees on their performance, or perhaps solutions that they are missing
8) Assess performance- assess their performance and final product
9) Enhance retention and transfer- Good closure and connection to previous content, overall reflection of project and objective


Gagne believes that learning happens in a hierarchical fashion. We must teach basic skills first so that students can build upon those to develop their higher level thinking skills and abilities. This is why he used step 3 (recall of prior knowledge).

This is a step by step lesson plan utilizing each of Gagne's Nine events of instruction

Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction in Action

This can be used in the classroom, government or business setting, or work place. Here is an example of how I would use Gagne in my classroom:

1) Show the students a very interesting power point on a California Mission with graphics, hyperlinks, and YouTube videos
2) Let them know that they will be creating their own project like this but the objective for today will be hyperlinking.
3) Remind them that they already have experience with power point and with computers so this will be easy for them
4) I will directly teach the students first how to hyperlink, then we will do some together.
5) I will walk around and monitor while the students do some on their own.
6) I will then ask them to start incorporating meaningful websites that will help their presentation on the mission
7) I will walk around and give feedback as to whether or not that website is beneficial to their project and viewer or not
8) I will assess them on how well they hyperlinked as well as the websites that they chose.
9) Provide closure, let them know that they will take the next step with inserting pictures the next day and that day by day their project will come together.

References

JWelgan. (2007, March 8). Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction. Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_8MB9F2cts

Unknown. (2014). Gagne's Nine Levels of Learning. Retrieved from Mind Tools: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/gagne.htm

Unknown. (2014). human learning wiki spaces. Retrieved from Google: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&sqi=2&ved=0CFEQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhuman-learning.wikispaces.com%2Ffile%2Fview%2FGagne's%2B9-Example%2Band%2BTemplate%255B1%255D.doc&ei=w6qfU5LQMofwoASQlIGQCg&usg=AFQjCNG7N3gGfruaMiOX_

 

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