Summary
Hopefully, this chapter highlighting the Teaching Competency in instructional design has opened your eyes to the similarities and differences between the role of a teacher, trainer, or instructor - and anyone who has created written or visual learning content - and that of an ID.
Parlaying teaching skills into instructional design is, in my opinion, one of the best things a new ID can do for their career. These early analysis activities in an instructional design project represent the gathering and structuring of content and become the backbone of any successful learning experience.
If you haven’t had any experience in teaching or training, my hope is that this chapter has assisted you in developing and strengthening your ID teaching competency. The content and resources in the chapter are designed to help someone understand foundational instructional competencies.
Even if you’ve never heard of anything that’s been discussed in this chapter before, you’ll now have the knowledge to think like an educator when starting your next instructional design project. You’re off to a solid start!
In the next chapter, we’ll shift to the second ID competency in our model: The Writing Competency.
