The ASSURE design model considers understanding the learners as the first step. By focusing on the characteristics, age, abilities, interests, learning styles, prior knowledge, etc.. first, you then can focus on the desired learning outcomes or “goal setting”. The information gathered in this step helps guide the decision making process of choosing specific strategies and resources that is best suited for your audience. I think this step is critical in designing and implementing the instruction. Understanding where your learners are at/stand in the beginning of the instruction can definitely make all the difference when structuring a personalized, effective and successful lesson. This aligns directly with this week’s content because I had to look at everyone in my learning group and identify their strengths & weaknesses, their prior knowledge, what motivates them, what their resources are, etc. I could have conducted surveys or online assessments to better analyzed my learning group in regards to their experience levels or learning styles. However, I feel like I didn’t really consider much “goal setting” during this week’s activity because it was more audience focused. I liked how this week’s activity made me think about some instructional strategies that could be used when considering my audience. Performing an audience analysis or needs assessment should be done in the early stages of designing/structuring a lesson and I would not have done anything different in this stage.