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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Instructional Objectives
I believe it is important to prepare instructional objectives in each domain of learning. The objectives are part of your road map. They help point you in the direction that you as a teacher or facilitator want your students to go. This area is still an emerging area for me. Even though I have not mastered the art of preparing instructional objectives I understand enough about them to know that they are relevent and it helps drive your lessons, along with your essential question. When I have developed my objectives I have only developed them with one type of student in mind. The longer I teach I notice students are at several different learning levels and I better understand why it is important to develop these objectives at different levels.
Hi Sandra, I agree that preparing instructional objectives in each domain is important not only to the student but the teacher as well. You stated that the instructional objectives can be like a road map to a teacher. The road map also opens up learning to the students from just understanding to building their critical thinking skills. This is also new to me but I do see the relevance and importance of preparing instructional objectives in each of the domains.
ReplyDeleteSandra and Freda, I agree with you both. Creating objectives for each domain certainly isn't easy. I have found that knowing their IEPs and asking them what helps them to learn. Makes the planning process much easier. It also puts the student in the drivers seat.
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