Design-Plan-Act Model

    Schools and districts require teachers to have a very precise plan for their curriculum. Many are now faced with integrating technology into their courses. In order to do that, they must figure out what technologies are beneficial and when to introduce them into the curriculum.

   In order to do this, many rely on planning models to help to guide them in the right direction. One is the Design-Plan-Act or DPA system for short.

D.P.A

1. Design. Design the overall content and sequence in the instructional unit

2. Plan. Articulate specific daily lesson plans needed to complete the unit

3. Act. Develop an instructional action plan for each day of unit instruction

Design: You envision your instruction in it's entirety. You see what has to be done as a whole sort of like seeing the whole picture.

Plan: In the planning phase, you break it down into daily lesson plans and make a course of action.

Act: Next you organize what you need to do to allow the lesson to run smoothly.