Teaching Objectives

& Aims

Dolly Ramos G

Teaching Objectives & Aims

The main aims of this first word are to explain the nature of, and the relationship between, aims and learning outcomes, and to help you to develop, or clarify, appropriate aims and learning outcomes for your teaching program.

Dolly Ramos Gallego

For classroom proyect the terms will be

Aim• A BROAD IDEA OF WHAT

YOU WANT YOUR SS TO DO AT THE END OF THE PRACTICUM

• competences that a teacher wants his students to achieve

• (at the end of a whole process)

Objective• what a student should be

able to do at end of the class

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DEFINITIONS

Can be defined as a general objective. They are used to provide a broad outline of disciplinary and interdisciplinary competences that a teacher wants his Ss to achieve.

(at the end of a whole process)

Teaching objective describes exactly what a student should be able to do.

( after the a class)

Learning is regarded as a change in behavior, and thus it can be measured after the teaching

Aim Objective Learning

To help you write aims, here are some examples.

• .

Other Course Objectives

…by the end of the regular school year.

Some Useful Words For Writing Aims

The aim of this training module is to…

• to raise awareness of…• to develop skills necessary for…• to help participants towards…• to lead to an appreciation of…• to encourage commitment to…• to develop interest in…• to improve efficiency in…• to enhance skill in…

RUMBA Test:

• - Relevant: functional goals and achievement• - Understandable: legible and avoid jargon• - Measurable: includes frequency and

duration, how long it occurred or how many times

• - Behavioral: measurable occurrences • - Achievable: reasonable

Example

The aim of this….gain an awareness of the importance of properly defined teaching objectives.

• The aim of this … is to foster an appreciation of the benefits of aims and develop skills in writing them.

Bloom’s Taxonomy• (Bloom, 1956), learning can occur on

very different affective, psychomotor, and cognitive levels.

• It is therefore necessaryto relate the teaching objectives to these levels, which are described in “Blooms taxonomy”. 

Aims and objectives should encompass the whole student experience and the progression of demand within the subject, and could usefully recognize the

three areas or 'domains' of objectives (Bloom 1956 ).

CognitiveCognitive

PsychomotorPsychomotorAffective Affective

The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

Useful Verbs

Guess which one is it • Write a letter to ... advising on changes needed at...• Write a list of any pieces of information you can remember. • Construct a model to demonstrate how it will work.• Write and perform a play based on the story.

Retell the story in your words• Write a commercial to sell a new product.• Create a new product. Give it a name and plan a marketing

campaign.

SEE ANSWERS ON THE NEXT SLIDE

Answer to the objectives

I. EvaluationII. KnowledgeIII. Application

IV. ComprehensionV. Analysis

VI. Synthesis

References• http://www.unesco.org/webworld/training/

mymediatrainer/Program/Section5/02_AimsObjectives.html

• http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/firstwords/fw32.html

• http://www.leeds.ac.uk/tlmt/dream/webshops/mainpage.htm

• http://w3.unisa.edu.au/gradquals/staff/program/aims.asp

• http://www.writing.ku.edu/~writing/instructors/guides/documents/Writing_Goals.pdf