CTE 361

Instructional Materials for Career & Technical Education

 

Lesson Two

 

DEVELOPING OBJECTIVES / SCHEDULING

 

 

            Objectives are essential since they are used to specify the content, the conditions and the standards of instruction.  They should always be included as part of the introductory part of a course of study.  There are many types of goals and objectives used in instruction.  This lesson will provide a summary of goals and objectives used in the instructional process and the proper procedures for using them to specify content and provide guidance for teaching.

 

            Once goals and objectives have been determined and content for a course has been specified, another important step in the planning process is to develop a tentative schedule.  The schedule should be based on the following:  (1)  program goals, (2)  careful analysis of content; (3) course objectives, and (4)  sequence of the knowledge and performance activities.

 

Lesson Outline:

 

·         Goals and Objectives

            System Goals – general goals of the school system

            Program Goals – general goals of the occupational program

            Course Goals - general goals of the course (knowledge/skills)

            Behavioral Objectives – specific objectives that include conditions, tasks and standards

            Performance Objectives – similar to behavioral objectives.

 

·         Types of Objectives  (Bloom / Krathwohl / Harrow)

            Cognitive - knowledge

            Psychomotor - skill

            Affective - attitude

 

·         Cognitive Domain (from simplest to most complex)

            Knowledge  (Remember)

            Comprehension (Understand)

            Appliation (Use)

            Analysis (Take apart)

            Synthesis (Create new)

            Evaluation (Judge)

 

 

·         Psychomotor Domain (from simplest to most complex)

            Imitation

            Manipulation

            Precision

            Articulation

            Naturalization

 

·         Affective Domain (from simplest to most complex)

            Receiving

            Responding

            Valuing

            Organizing

            Characterizing

 

·         Writing Lesson Objectives

                  Tasks

            Conditions

            Standards

 

 

Instructors and their Jobs by Miller and Miller, 1998

 

            Chapter 4 --  Identifying Content and Specifying Behaviors

 

·         Instructor’s Goal -- Increase student’s competence

 

·         Identify Content / Tasks / Competencies

 

·         Behaviors (skills / knowledge / attitudes) (“S/K/A”)

 

·         Analysis -- occupational

 

·         Job tasks -- Task statements

 

·         Developing a Curriculum (DACUM)

 

·         Profile Chart -- Duties / Tasks

 

·         Instructional Design

 

·         Robert Selvidge / Verne Fryklund

 

·         Blocks -- Content categories

 

·         “Doing” content -- skills / processes / procedures --proper order, length, specific

 

·         “Knowing” content

 

·         Content inventory

 

·         Performance objectives -- transformed from tasks and related knowledge

 

·         Outcome-based instruction

 

·         Goals and objectives  -- Tasks / Conditions / Criteria (standards)

 

·         Writing Performance Objectives -- Verbs

 

 

Lesson Summary / Review

 

1.   Be able to answer questions 1 through 18 in Chapter 4 of the text and display the answers           in your portfolio.

 

2.  Be able to discuss Activities 1 through 8 in the text and display your responses in    your portfolio.

 

3.      Discribe the setting (middle school, high school, post-secondary school, or occupational area) where you teach or plan to teach.

 

4.      Be able to plan five to ten course objectives for the course you are organizing.

 

5.      Be able to develop a tentative schedule of content topics and student activities for the course you are organizing.

 

 

References:

 

1.  Instructors and their Jobs by Miller and Miller, Chicago, Illinois: American Technical Society.

 

2.  Learning How to Teach by Edmunds and Smith, Alexandria, Virginia: American Vocational Association, 1996.