As a life-long learner, I approached instructional design with a lot of curiosity and questions to be answered and I was not disappointed. ETEC 5440 class was so far a challenging and mostly satisfying journey. Working on the design project with a team brought its own set of challenges, as opposed to planning lessons on my own as a classroom teacher. As a team we had to learn to work and plan a project using the ADDIE design model, together and going through all its five stages. It was an arduous journey with many challenges, but we learned on the way to take things one step at a time, rely on each other and our individual commitment to the process and supported each other through the learning process which inherently was not always a smooth path.
As a result, I look differently at my colleagues teaching the same subject with me, math, and the process of professional learning we undergo continuously. We follow the instructional design model of improving and fine tuning our instructional material having continuously our learners in mind. I am looking not only at my colleagues through a newfound perspective but also my learners and at my lesson planning, adopting fresh approach knowing that is an ongoing process to be evaluated by me and my learners through the lens of achieving the goals.