Chapter 3: Setting Goals and Objectives

Learning is a change in an individual's capacity to perform as a result of experience

Learning must have direction and purpose

Be aware that students perform at different levels

Individualized education plan (IEP) have specific goals and state specific needs of the student and the plan of action for that student

All students should be mainstreamed as allowable

Increased diversity has lead to more Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students in classes

English Language Learners (ELL) and Limited English Proficient (LEP)

Students who have yet to fully grasp English

Students are learning English as a Second Language (ESL)

Objective: statement of what your students should be able to do after instruction

Communication of Intent is a key part of objectives

Must have clear ojbectives to set up proper evaluation of what students have learned

Objectives are narrow statements of the intended learning of a unit or specific lesson

Three levels of specificity

1- Educational Goals

broad and may take a longer period of time to complete

overarching goal

2- Instructional Objectives

Precisely communicate learning intent on three components: Behavior, Conditions and Criterion

Specify performance, the final product, the conditions of performance and the criteria for performance

3- Informational Objectives

Abbreviated instructional objectives that specify only the student perfomance and the product

better to share with students than instructional objectives because they are simpler

Objectives should be presented at the begining of a unit and be clearly shown in written form

Three Domains of Learning

1- Cognitive

ability to recall information

Bloom's Taxonomy

6 Levels from simple to complex

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Synthesis

Evaluation

2- Affective

emotional repsonse to the task

Krathwohl's Levels

5 Levels from simple to complex

Receiving

Responding

Valuing

Organization

Characterization by value

3- Psychomotor

Four Levels from Simple to Complex

Fundamental Movement

Generic Movement

Ordinative Movement

Creative Movement