EEX 3257

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EEX 3257

• LESSON PLANNING Objectives

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LESSON OBJECTIVE
What should you accomplish by the end
of this lesson? Write a precise
lesson objective addressing one of
the 6 levels of Blooms taxonomy
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A Teachers 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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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.)

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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)

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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

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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