Setting Goals and Objectives

Standards for Student Performance

Accountability

Skill acquisition necessary

Accredidation

Process that mandates review at the state level and rewards approval at the regiolal level

Disabled/Handicapped Students

Students who require extra attention due to learning differences

ADD/ADHD

Learning disabilities characterized by hyperactivity and short attention spans

Limited English Proficiency

English Language Learners

Students learning english as a second language

Rationale for Objectives

Objective

Statement of what your students should be able to do after instruction

Public Law 94-192

Require that an IEP be written for any handicapped student in your class

Objective Specificity

Goals

Broad statements describing the purposes of schooling or the purposes of the course

Stating Objectives

Instructional Objectives

Precisely communicate learning intent

Spell out terminal behavior

Specify what is to be produced by student actions

Describe conditions for student action

State criteria of acceptable performance

Informational Objectives

Abbreviated instructional objectives

Communication of Objectives

It is important to communicate the objectives to teachers and students

Taxonomies of Objectives

Cognitive Domain

Objectives concerned with the thinking and reasoning abilities of students

6 Levels

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Synthesis

Evaluation

Affective Domain

Objectives concerned with the development of student attitudes, feelings, and emotions

5 Levels

Recieving

Responding

Valuing

Organization

Characterization n by a value or value complex

Psychomotor Domain

4 Levels

Fundamental Movement

Generic Movement

Ordinative movement

Creative Movement