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hi my name is Karen Duncan and I'd like
to talk to you today about writing
objectives or aims for your lesson plans
so to do that today we're going to talk
about three different things
the first being remembering the end goal
of your lesson always keeping that in
mind the second thing we'll discuss is
making sure that you include the focus
of your lesson so thinking about the
skills the language the content that you
are covering in that lesson and the
third thing we'll talk about is
including dynamic language when you're
writing those objectives
all right so the first thing is pretty
simple just remember the end goal of
your lesson and to do that ask yourself
the question what will my students have
accomplished by the end of this lesson
and make sure you include that in your
objective or your aim you can start out
by saying students will be able to if
you start your objective with that
phrase then you will always keep that
end goal in mind
alright so the second thing I want you
to think about when writing objectives
for your lesson plan is the focus of
your lesson and in language classrooms
you want to think about the skills the
language and the content that are
included in your lesson so first the
skills and when you're teaching English
you typically teach listening speaking
reading and writing perhaps not all of
them but one or two in each lesson and
next the language think about that are
you teaching certain grammar point or
some vocabulary that should be included
in your objective and last think about
the content in your lesson we don't
teach language in a vacuum so think
about the context you're using to teach
that language let's say you're teaching
students to use the past tense you might
have them speaking or writing about a
vacation they took in the past and then
you have to teach them vocabulary and
ideas about vacations
that's your content for those objectives
the third thing I want you to think
about when writing your objectives or
aims for your lesson is to include
dynamic or descriptive language one way
to do that is to look at this image of
Bloom's taxonomy we have a pyramid that
shows concrete learning at the bottom
and more abstract types of learning
towards the top this image also includes
a lot of different types of verbs you
can use in your objectives when you're
writing so for example if you want to
use the verb understand in one of your
aims students will be able to understand
look at this and see if there's a better
verb more descriptive verb that you can
use let's say instead of understand you
might
Jews describe report or explain because
that's what they will actually be doing
to summarize my three tips for writing
objectives or aims for your lesson plans
I'd like to give you an example students
will be able to read a holiday story
written in the past tense and explain
the main idea in writing so first you
can see that I'm looking to the end of
the lesson seeing what my students will
be able to do I started it out by
writing that phrase students will be
able to second you can see the focus of
my lesson the students will be reading
and writing a little bit at the end the
language focus is the past tense and the
content focus is holidays and last you
can see that I'm trying to use dynamic
language you could just say the students
will understand the story but in order
to observe that or measure that you want
to say something like the students will
explain the main idea that is much more
descriptive so thanks a lot for watching
my tips for writing objectives and I
hope you write some great objectives in
the future
you
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