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