Learning Log No. 5

Notes taken from Geoff Petty’s Chapter 37, Aims and Objectives

·         Specific learning outcomes/specific objectives should:

o   Know what students should be able to do

o   Written in a way to help determine whether or not you achieve the objective

o   Suit the resources

o   Focus on a student’s ability

·         The Cognitive Domain

o   Knowledge: to be able to state, recall, list, recognize, draw…

o   Comprehension: to be able to explain, describe reason for…

o   Application: to be able to apply, construct, solve, select…

o   Analysis: to be able to break down, compare and contrast…

o   Evaluation: to be able to judge, criticize…

·         The Affective Domain

o   Concerns itself with attention, interest, awareness, opinions, moral and values

·         The Psychomotor Domain

o   Physical skills that include sense perception, experiments, etc

Notes taken from Geoff Petty’s Chapter 38, Choosing Activities for The Lesson

·         The CIA (Content Idea Activities) process

o   Content

§  Clarify the topic content to an appropriate depth and breadth

·         Ideas

o   Determine the content’s main:

§  Concepts

§  Factors

§  Evidence/experiments

§  Principles/viewpoints

·         Activities

o   Create questions and activities where students must reason with, process and apply key ideas

·         Academic and vocational relevance to the topic is important

·         Consider reason skills your subject seeks to develop

Notes taken from Geoff Petty’s Chapter 39, Choosing Activities to Achieve Affective objectives

·         Encouraging students t attend and to show interest in their studies

o   Image

§  Does the new opinion help envision my image?

o   Consistency

§  Is the belief consistent with my other beliefs?

o   Effectiveness

§  How will the belief affect my short/long term goals?