EEX 3257

1. EEX 3257 LESSON PLANNING: Objectives

2. LESSON OBJECTIVE What should you accomplish by the end of this lesson? –Write a precise lesson objective addressing one of the 6 levels of Bloom’s taxonomy

3. A Teacher’s Task is to Uncover What Should Be Learned Stop asking, What activity am I going to do? What video should I show? What information should I cover? Start asking, What do I want my students to learn, achieve, accomplish? Remember learning has everything to do with what the student accomplishes not what the teacher covers

4. Creating Effective Lessons • Ineffective lessons involve the teacher telling the class what will be covered. • Effective lessons let the students know up front what they are to master or accomplish at the end of the lesson. • Effective lessons begin with well-defined goals and objectives.

5. What Are Objectives and How Do They Help Teachers? • Objectives are what a student must achieve to accomplish what the teacher states is to be learned, comprehended, or mastered. • Objectives help teachers assign and assess.

6. Creating Effective Objectives • Consider three important learning levels when developing student goals and objectives • Acquisition:  What information or skill has been acquired? • Comprehension: Does the student show an understanding of what has been learned? • Mastery: Can the student use what has been comprehended?

7. How Do You Write Objectives? • First: Consider the learning level: • –Acquisition:  Students demonstrate knowledge of information, a skill, or strategy • –Comprehension:  Students demonstrate they understand information, a skill, or strategy • –Mastery:  Students demonstrate they can apply learning, or analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information they have learned

8. How Do You Write Objectives? • Second: Write the Objective – Consider objectives from various learning levels – Pick a verb that clearly states what you want the students to do.  The verb must be active (e.g., describe, compare, construct, explain) – Complete the sentence (Describe what happens when 2 molds grow together.)

9. More Tips for Writing Objective • Objectives must be written before that lesson begins. They guide what activities and materials to use. • The more understandable the sentence (objective), the greater the chance that the student will do what is intended. • Do not use verbs that convey unobservable behaviors (e.g., understand, enjoy, appreciate)

10. Keys to Assignment Success • Structure – The assignment must have a consistent and familiar format that the students can recognize – The assignment should be posed daily and in a consistent location • Preciseness – The assignment must state clearly and simply what students are to accomplish • Accomplishment – Give the students objectives so they know what they are responsible for accomplishing and procedures for meeting those objectives

11. Verbs to Use • Recall – Memorize, tell, identify • Comprehension – Describe, summarize, retell in your own words • Application – Construct, demonstrate, determine • Analysis – Analyze, compare, distinguish • Synthesis – Predict, compose, invent • Evaluation – Appraise, judge, support