Instruction Model - Robert Gagné's Nine Steps of Instruction

Overview

Robert Gagné's Nine Steps of Instruction is a generalized model of instructional development. Most other models incorporate essential features of Gagné's model while moving the instruction towards more specific goals than those envisioned by Gagné's model.

When to use Gagné's Model

Gagné's model of instruction is useful when other models do not fill the needs of instruction.

Steps in Robert Gagné's Nine Steps of Instruction1

  1. Gain attention.
  2. Inform learner of Objective.
  3. Stimulate recall of prior knowledge.
  4. Present the material.
  5. Provide guidance for learning.
  6. Elicit performance.
  7. Provide feedback.
  8. Assess performance.
  9. Enhance retention and transfer.

Lesson Evaluation Checklist

  1. Were the learners engaged?
  2. Did the learners acquire the knowledge?
  3. Did the learners successfully transfer knowledge to other situations (generalization)?

Credits

1 Adapted from Don Clark, Developing Instruction or Instructional Design, 29 May 2000

Other Resources

Gagne, Robert M. (1985), 29 May 2000, The Conditions of Learning and the Theory of Instruction, (4th ed.), New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Don Clark, Developing Instruction or Instructional Design, last accessed 14 June 2007, http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/development.html