Objective Related Principle of Teaching

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Objective- Related

Principles of Teaching

“Goals are our guiding star.”


Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives

1. “ Begin with the end in mind”, says Covey, the author


of “Seven Habits of Effective People”. In the context of
teaching, this means that we must begin our lesson with a
clearly defined lesson objective. With a clear and specific
lesson objective we will have a sense of direction. With a
definite lesson objective in mind, we do not lose sight of
what we intend to teach.
Begin you lesson with a clearly defined lesson objective.
Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives

2. Share lesson objective with students. Like a seminar that begins


with a statement of purpose, our lesson ought to begin with a statement of
purpose, our lesson ought to begin with a statement and clarification of
our lesson objective. Make known to our students our instructional
objective and encourage them to make the lesson objective their own.
Make your students own the lesson objective.
Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives

3. Lesson objectives must be in the two or three domains


knowledge (cognitive) skill, (psychomotor) and values
(affective). Our lesson maybe dominantly cognitive, psychomotor of
affective. Dominantly cognitive if it is meant primarily for knowledge
acquisition and dominantly psychomotor if it is intended for the
acquisition and honing of skills. Lesson objectives in the affective domain
are mainly focused on attitude and value formation. A cognitive or a skill
lesson must always include the affective dimension for wholistic learning.
Lesson objective must integrate objectives in the cognitive,
psychomotor and affective domains for wholistic lesson.
Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives

4. Work on significant and relevant lesson objectives. With our


lesson objective becoming our students’ lesson objective, too, our student
will be self-propelled as we teach. The level of their self-motivation all the
more increases when our lesson objective is relevant to their daily life,
hence, significant.
Our lesson objective must be connected to our student’s life experiences.
Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives
5. Lesson objective must be aligned with the aims of education as
embodied in the Philippine Constitution and other Laws and on the
vision-mission statements of the educational institution of which you
are a part.
The aims of education as enshrined in our fundamental law of the land, in the
Education Act of 1982, the Ten-Year Medium Term Development Plan must be
reflected in the vision-mission statements of educational institutions. In turn, the
vision-mission statements of educational institutions must filter down to the
course objectives stated in course syllabi and in lesson objectives laid down in
lesson plans.
The lesson objective must flow from the aims of education enshrined in the
Phil. Constitution and the vision – mission statements of schools.
Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives

6. Aim at the development of critical and creative thinking.


This is said more than done.
We need not go into a laborious research to be convinced that the
development of critical and creative thinking is wanting in classrooms.
Most questions asked whether oral or written are convergent, low-level
questions.
Guiding Principles in Determining and
Formulating Learning Objectives

7. For accountability of learning, lesson objectives must be

SMART, i.e., Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Result-

oriented Relevant, Time-bound and Terminal.

When our lesson objective is SMART it is quite easy to find out at

the end of our lesson if we attained our objective or not. It will also be

easier on our part to formulate a test that is valid to measure the

attainment of our lesson objective.

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