eJournal 4

I write a great deal of goals and objectives for my students, but I have never written goals and objectives for adult learners, or for a presentation that lasts for only a few hours.  I am not sure I am 100% happy with these yet, but here they are:

Following active participation during presentation, 80% of learners will be able to describe and define differentiated instruction in life skills classrooms and demonstrate that knowledge by:

• providing the three important variables (what the student knows, what the student needs to know, and how the student learns best).    
• identifying the characteristics of the three basic learning styles by determining the learning styles of the people in their group.

Following active participation during presentation, 80% of learners will be able to demonstrate steps necessary to successfully plan differentiated instruction in life skills classrooms by:

• accessing free assessment products online that could be used for summative assessment  OR identifying the summative assessment tool they currently use.
• demonstrating an understanding of the connection between summative assessment and goals/objectives by successfully creating at least one objective from a (provided) completed assessment.
• demonstrating an understanding of needs of students based on learning styles by correctly identifying the best types of activities for each learning style.

                                                                                     
Following active participation during presentation, 80% of learners will be able to demonstrate steps necessary to successfully differentiated instruction in life skills classrooms by:

• creating a whole group differentiated lesson using a provided lesson plan and provided student profiles.
• creating a small group differentiated lesson using a provided lesson plan and provided student profiles.