Identifying and Articulating Learning Objectives

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Identifying and Articulating Learning Objectives Identifying and writing learning objectives is a very important part of the work of the teacher when planning lessons. Objectives- are statements of what will be achieved as a result of the instruction the teacher is designing. Instructional Objectives or Performance Objectives  The objectives of unit or lesson.  Specific descriptions of what teachers are expected to teach and what the students are expected to learn.  Also refer to student mastery of the content of the lesson such as facts, concepts, skills, and generalizations.  These objectives are precise, tangible, concrete, and can be validated.  Typically include a stem plus three components: targeted student performance, a description of the method for assessing the intended performance, and a criterion for measuring success. For example: Objective: The student will be able to identify with 95% accuracy, the subject and the verb in the sentences written on the board. The stem: The student will be able to Target performance: identify the subject and the verb Measurement conditions: in sentences written on the board Criterion of success: with 95% accuracy Other examples: 1. With the use of a Philippine map, the students will be able to locate the seventeen regions in the country within three minutes. 2. During a music lesson, the students will be able to sing Philippine music with the accompaniment of a guitar or a piano. 3. Given ten sentences containing twenty misspelled words, the leaner will underline at least sixteen of the misspellings. 4. When presented flash cards of words containing the letter combination “ph”, the student will pronounce the words on eighteen of twenty cards correctly.  These objectives not only detail what the students are supposed to learn and how such learning is to be measured but also require that
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