Sunday, 2 September 2007

Learning Objectives

Question: What is a learning Objective

Since I lost my marbles, I've become much less confident about things I thought I knew. One of them it turns out is are my Learning Objectives OK. Now I really should not be worrying about this. I don't teach any more, I'm just admin now. But it turns out my old department members still are not planning their own lessons and here I am, last day of the holidays (actually I've been back a fortnight) planning lessons that I wont even get to teach. Any way answers to the question:

This page gives a very operational view of things, very much linked to an ICT training model, and given that this page says much the same thing, it must be standard possibly in the USA. But in the UK context I'm coming up empty.

So what shall I do? Go with my instincts - which were always good when it came to teaching, seems the most likely. I will take the following as my guides:
  • That they should represent something that the pupils did not know before the lesson and that they do know afterwards
  • They should in some part be assessable - so that the kids and the staff know whether they have accomplished something
  • They should give the kids some sort of framework

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