Featured Project
Building Student Engagement
Strengthening Inquiry-Based Learning through Your Responses
This project is featured to demonstrate my ability to design interactive, scenario-based learning experiences that build communication and coaching skills through feedback, reflection, and applied practice.
Skills Demonstrated
Scenario-based instructional design
AI-supported conversational learning
Learner-centered feedback systems
Interactive e-learning development in Storyline 360
Visual design and branding consistency
Application of adult learning principles
Designing realistic practice environments for workplace communication
Although designed within teacher professional development, the communication and facilitation strategies apply across many workplace settings.
These include leadership training, customer service, healthcare communication, onboarding, and other roles that depend on effective real-time interaction.
The Problem
A private school adopted a student-centered instructional model designed to increase student motivation and independent thinking. While teachers understood the goals of the approach, many struggled during classroom implementation as students pushed back against doing more independent thinking and relying less on teacher-directed instruction. The resulting frustration among teachers, students, and parents often led teachers to return to more traditional teaching practices, limiting the long-term success of the initiative.
The Gap & Need
Many teachers supported the shift toward student-centered learning, but felt less prepared for the pushback that often came with it. Students were being asked to do more independent thinking, and teachers needed practical strategies for guiding students through frustration and uncertainty without taking over the learning process.
As students resisted the transition away from teacher-directed instruction, teachers needed effective ways to:
Respond to frustration and disengagement
Sustain productive thinking
Encourage persistence during challenging tasks
The school needed a practical training solution that gave teachers opportunities to practice communication and coaching strategies in realistic classroom situations.
The Solution
To address this challenge, I designed an interactive professional development experience that helps teachers respond more effectively when students disengage during inquiry-based learning activities. Instead of relying on passive instruction, the experience focuses on applied practice, reflection, and real-time decision making.
Teachers engage with realistic classroom scenarios that simulate common student behaviors.
Key Features
Scenario-based interactions with branching responses and consequences
AI-driven coaching simulations with realistic student conversations
Dynamic mentor feedback and guided reflection
Progressive challenge levels to support skill development
Practical strategies grounded in inquiry-based learning and growth mindset principles
The final product was developed in Storyline 360 and designed to feel like a realistic, supportive coaching experience rather than a traditional compliance-style training module.
This project followed a structured instructional design process, drawing on both the ADDIE framework and SAM.
Process Overview
