NUA Interactive PFM

a design, for good instruction, use it well

The Pedagogical Flow Map (PFM) is an instructional design from the National Urban Alliance. It is a scaffold for teachers to use to fully develop effective units of instruction. It is based on current brain and learning research (Feuerstein, Nagy, Caine and Caine, Erikson, Pearson, Jensen, and Vygotsky).

Each of the steps in the PFM plays a critical role in an effective instructional unit. In some units, each can clearly be identified as a separate step; in others various steps may be combined. Although some steps come before others, the order of the steps is not fixed. Steps may be ordered and adjusted in a number of ways, depending on the instructional goals and purposes.

The PFM helps the instructor focus on:

• Clear instructional goals
• Focus on learning
• Big ideas/Supra concepts
• Process as well as content
• Text-oriented learning
• On-going reflection

I have created an interactive PFM. As you roll over each step it will provide you with information on what that step is about and how it might be used in your instructional design. In addition, each section has a central question or questions to help you focus on the main idea of each step.

• Launch Interactive PFM (you need Flash Player)
  It uses a modified Content Slider script from BrainGiants to create the sliding action. Thanks, Charlie!
  
  

PFM Documents:

• Instructional Flow Map/Concepts (it's a little crooked--sorry)
  
  
• PFM Form (need Acrobat Professional to save typing, will print however)
  
  
• Blank PFM (Need MS. Publisher, type, save, print)
  
  
• Blank PFM

(get Adobe Reader)