Last week was one of those times when the words, 'when it rains, it pours,' actually came to life to haunt every fiber of my being. On Monday we discussed the contents of the rubrics for the lesson plans and the Web2.0. Would you believe that the only POSITIVE I was able to take away was the four components of an objective - an objective must have a condition, a behaviour, an audience and degree.
Although I had learnt that an objective should be measurable, general or specific, affective, cognitive and psychomotor, utilize verbs from Bloom's taxonomy which explained exactly what the particular student must do in order to have achieved the relevant objective, initially, I found it difficult to apply this knowledge to the four labels which were attached to the objective.
Eventually I realized that my previous knowledge and the four labels were one and the same. They were just worded differently.
Hi Kathine,
ReplyDeleteI think the primary focus in determining and stating any of the objectives in the lesson plans is to ensure they state what the students will learn.Sometimes we confuse this with what they will do during the process to bring about the learning. I feel safe crafting any of my objectives using the SMART acronym. I ensure the objectives are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound. In this way , I know exactly what I want the learning to be and feel assured that I have pinpinted the same. I haven't gone wrong with that!
Lemoy
Hi Lemoy
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your SMART way of formulating specific objectives. I definitely will use it to formulate my objectives from now on. Based on what Aisha Wood-Jackson stated in her perusal of my lesson plan and what you stated in your comment, I intended to edit this post and change what students should 'do' to what students will 'learn'.
However, from discussion from one of our colleagues, we were 'remembering' our college days where we were taught that general objectives would describe what a teacher wanted a student to learn but the specific objectives would describe what the teacher wanted the student to do to demonstrate that the student has achieved the objective. Do you have any clarification on this issue?
Kathine, I too was overwhelmed when Aisha went through the rubric for the lesson plan. Honestly. I was like, Jewel, take it one assignment at a time. How hard could five lesson plans be and then I found out.
ReplyDeleteLike you, there was some discordance with what I understood lesson plans to be and what we were expected to produce. You know, we were taught in college there are five lesson plans –concept, reinforcement, review, enrichment and evaluation (I hope I remembered them correctly). However during class, I heard that one lesson plan is inclusive of two or more sessions, Suddenly a refrain from an old calypso popped into my head:
“This is not a fete in here, this is madness!!!”
But then when I really thought about it, I realized that we do take more than one session to ensure that a concept is learnt. It was just divided into the five lesson plans.
This teaches us that in any teaching /learning situation, we must be open-minded, that is, willing to see things from different perspectives. As teachers too, we have to be careful how we present information to students so that they can be open to embrace different perspectives as well.
Hi Divinejewel
ReplyDeleteYou hit the hammer on the nail with the David Rudder.(lol) At least you were able to sing and reduce the stress.