Teachers' Cooperative Design of Instruction with Media for Social and Environmental Studies.

This study examines how a group of Japanese teachers cooperatively designed lessons using a television program and other materials for social and environmental studies. Teachers started the design by identifying their aims of instruction through examining the contents of an educational television program. This program described how a group of volunteers dug a well using traditional machinery of bamboo trees and seeks to apply this method in other countries where people need water and where modern technology is not appropriate to use. The cooperative design proceeded through several decision points of teacher domain and media domain. Based on this work, three different instructional sessions were conducted in which the television materials were used in order to accomplish the teachers' aims which differed from one another. This work showed that teachers can attain individual aims from the common materials and also presented a model for cooperative design of classroom instruction. (Contains 6 references.) (Author/TMK) ******4**************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Teachers' Cooperative Design of Instruction with Media for Social and Environmental Studies Hiroo Saga National Institute of Multimedia Education 2-12, Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan 261 Paper presented at the 1993 Conference of the International Council for Educational Media, November 22-24, 1993, Barcelona, Catalunya. U.S. IMPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office at Edirostond Research end irropperd EDUCATIONAL CENTER (ERIC) 0 This document MS Pen 'produced ss usceivps uon, Ise person Or OnierntatIOn Vomiting it 0 Minor chatIONS rims been toads 10 inicoo'n, MOroditOtiOn ausIdy poop el w of °omens Stated in this document do not niliCeParity nopripont °MCI& OERI position or policy Abstract: This study examined how a group of teachers cooperatively designed lessons using a TV programme and other materials for social and environmental studies. Teachers started the design by identifying their aims of instruction through examining the contents of an educational TV programme. This programme described how a Japanese group of volunteers digs a well using a traditional machinery of bamboo trees, and seeks to apply this method in other countries where people need water and where modem technology is not appropriate to use. The cooperative design proceeded through several decision points of teacher's domain and media domain. Based on this work, three different instructional sessions were conducted in which the TV programme was used in common as the main material, but also other different materials were used in order to accomplish the teachers' aims which differed one from another. This work showed that teachers can attain individual aims from the common material and also presented a model for a cooperative design of classroom instruction. This study examined how a group of teachers cooperatively designed lessons using a TV programme and other materials for social and environmental studies. Teachers started the design by identifying their aims of instruction through examining the contents of an educational TV programme. This programme described how a Japanese group of volunteers digs a well using a traditional machinery of bamboo trees, and seeks to apply this method in other countries where people need water and where modem technology is not appropriate to use. The cooperative design proceeded through several decision points of teacher's domain and media domain. Based on this work, three different instructional sessions were conducted in which the TV programme was used in common as the main material, but also other different materials were used in order to accomplish the teachers' aims which differed one from another. This work showed that teachers can attain individual aims from the common material and also presented a model for a cooperative design of classroom instruction.