Topic 2: Instructional Goals and Learning Outcomes: Foundations for Assessment

What is educational goals and objectives???

Well...
Goals are broad, generalized statements about what is to be learned. It is as a target that needs to be reached or hit. Meanwhile, instructional objectives are specific, measurable, short-term, observable students’ behaviors. Through these objectives that were made, it can help the teachers to build their lessons and assessment that can prove meet overall course or lesson goals. It also is tools that have been used to reach the lesson goals.

Instructional goals and objectives can be symbolized as a dart game...

Bloom Taxonomy

When designing the appropriate learning goals and objectives, teachers must consider the students’ need and ability according to the Bloom’s Taxonomy. 

These learning goals and objectives are very important and compulsory for each teacher to know about it and have clear understanding about it. Sometimes it can be a little difficult for them to prepared suitable goals and objectives as it can be a misunderstanding about its meaning.

While learning this topic, I have a little confusion between the meaning of goals and objective. When our lecturer asked us about the meaning of each context, I cannot answer the question because I was in doubt about its meaning. But after our lecturer explained to us, I was like, “Oh!! Now I know… (Nodding head)

Importance of goals and objectives for me as a teacher-to-be...

After the explanation about the meaning of instructional goals and objectives by our lecturer, I have clear understanding of its purpose and importance in teaching and learning. It is important to have the right and appropriate goals as well as the objectives before starting the lesson. By having the right goals and objectives, I can manage my teaching and learning session with efficiently and without having any problem at the end oh teaching session as the students can get the right learning outcomes.

It is not only focuses on the teaching session, which goals and objectives also play important roles in our daily life as it can help us to achieve our life goal by doing the right objectives that were set in our mind.