Teaching objectives & aims

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

Objective• what a student should

be able to do at end of the class

Sub-

aim

s

AIM

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.

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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

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

Some Useful Words For Writing Aims

The aim of this training module is to…

• to demonstrate of…• to compare …• to express…• to explain …• to participate in …• to Recognize…• to identify…• to mention…

Useful Verbs

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