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The ASSURE model uses a step-by-step process to help you create the framework for lessons integrating technology to enhance student learning.
The steps in the ASSURE model are:
A – Analyze learners,
S – State standards and objectives,
S – Select strategies and resources,
U – Utilize resources,
R – Require learner participation, and
E – Evaluate and revise.
More information on the ASSURE model steps is provided on the Learning Objects page.
In this assignment, you will use the ASSURE model to design a one-week curricular unit for your blended course (Module 1) and integrate digital tools to support learning and assessment. You may use a lesson plan template of your choice. Your plan will include three distinct lessons with objectives aligned to state and/or national standards and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students.
Prior to starting this assignment, review the blended lesson design and content you selected in Module 1.
Step 1. Analyze Learners
Identify the target learner population (Module 1) and analyze the learner characteristics. Consider prior knowledge, skills, and attitudes and any specific learner needs. Describe how you will use technology to assist learners with disabilities or other special needs.
Step 2-1. Identify Standards
Choose relevant state and/or national standards and appropriate ISTE Standards for Students for each of the three lessons.
Choose 1-2 state and/or national standards for each lesson.
Choose 1-2 ISTE standards for each lesson.
Step 2-2. Write Objectives
Use the ABCDs to write one learning objective for each of the 3 lessons.
Begin with the learner (A-Audience).
Choose the behavior (B) you want learners to demonstrate.
The condition (C) is that technology is used to support learning and assess achievement of the chosen objectives.
Finally, determine the degree (D) to which the new knowledge must be demonstrated for mastery. This gives you the beginning point (learners skills) and ending point (mastery) of instruction.
The ABCDs Objectives Checklist linked on the Learning Objects page provides additional information on writing objectives.
Step 3. Select Strategies and Resources
In each of the three lessons, select a strategy and a digital tool to convey the content and achieve the learning objective.
Provide a rationale for each selection and any needed modifications.
Step 4. Utilize Resources
Utilize the 5Ps to plan how you will use each of the strategies and digital tools from Step 3 to help learners achieve the learning objective in each lesson. See the Module 3, Part 1 video presentation.
Step 5. Require Participation
Within each lesson, ensure opportunities for these types of interactions: learner-to-content (application), learner-to-learner (peer collaboration and feedback), learner-to-instructor (instructor collaboration), and learner-to-self (self-reflection).
Step 6. Evaluate and Revise
Design a formative assessment for each lesson and a cumulative summative assessment. Integrate technology into each assessment. The assessments should be designed to provide feedback to learners and to revise the lessons as needed.
Step 7. Compile and Submit
Compile and submit the lessons and the assessments in your choice of format. No APA references are required for this assignment.

This week you will be completing what is essentially a draft of the first several pages of the concept paper, plus the title page and a partial list of references. Once you receive my feedback on your alignment table from week 1 and your topic has been approved, you should also apply those suggestions to this assignment to align your paper’s major elements (problem statement, purpose statement, research questions, and hypotheses if applicable).
Here are some additional tips for this week’s assignment:
Use the concept paper checklist and template! Review both documents to ensure you have covered all required items in the appropriate order and in the appropriate section, as we discussed in our start-of-term meeting. Download the template in the assignment instructions and use it to build your paper. Begin with a title page (including a working title for your study and your degree area, exactly as shown on the concept paper template) insert your new content up through the research questions/hypotheses sections. Your assignment should look like your final concept paper up to that point. You may also insert your edited literature review from last week and the edited literature matrix as the appendix, as shown on the template. Do not include the content for additional sections of the paper, even if you have taken the course before – I will only be reviewing the sections required this week. Introduction: Try to limit the introduction to a paragraph or two. The goal for the final paper is to have 10-12 pages of content (minus the title page and references). If you take up multiple pages with the introduction, you will start running too long. Provide some basic background information for your topic, using citations. The final sentence of the introduction should introduce the major sections of your paper as required by the checklist. For example: “The following sections will include a discussion of the problem, the purpose of the study, the research questions…(etc.)”
Problem Statement: I suggest the use of “sentence starters” to cover each of the checklist items. The problem is…The background of the problem is…The extent of the problem is…The persons impacted by the problem are….the gap in the literature is…and so forth. Most checklist items in this section can be covered with one to three good sentences. Cite scholarly (journal articles) references where required.
Purpose statement: Remember to implement the feedback I provided on your alignment table to revise your purpose statement as necessary. Ensure the remaining checklist items in this section are explicitly covered, using sentence-starters as mentioned above where appropriate.
Research questions: Revise your research questions based on my previous feedback. Use the Research Design Guide to help you. It contains templates for research questions by specific design.
Include a references list at the end. The references list should be in proper APA 7th format and appear like the example in the concept paper template. Ensure the references list aligns with your paper (all included references are cited in the body of the paper).
When you finish, grade your own paper with the checklist. Note any deficiencies or missing checklist items and make revisions prior to submitting. Fill out the page numbers column indicating on which page(s) each checklist item is found in your paper. The “notes” column is not required to be filled out unless you have a special note about that item you want to call to my attention. You should submit both a completed checklist (up through the research questions/hypotheses sections) AND your draft paper.