How Do You Present Learning Objectives Effectively?
Learning in a classroom environment can be hard for some students, especially if they lack direction or focus. Teachers can help students concentrate on the day’s lesson by posting learning objectives in clear and easy-to-understand language. Identify potential learning objectives of the day in your curriculum’s standards of learning. Choose one or two to focus on throughout the lesson. Examine the language used in the description of the standard. If needed, use a thesaurus to come up with alternative words to state the objective. Reword the learning objective into simple, age-appropriate language. For example, consider the phrasing “pick out similes” instead of “identify similes” if teaching literary devices to fifth-graders. The colloquial language will be much more understandable to them. Inform students that there will be a specific block of space on the whiteboard or chalkboard dedicated to “Goals of the Day.” Most students can understand the idea of goals and it is a much more fa
