Learning Objectives

This week, we read about all kinds of different interest approaches or "Hooks" (depending on what your reading) and writing objectives. I'm going to focus on the objectives today. I tend to have trouble writing objectives because at this point, and I believe it is because I don't always know what verbs to use to express how what I want to students to do.

After doing a little bit of digging though, I have found this helpful chart that shows the different levels of Blooms Taxonomy, and the different words you can use to signal each level.

To the left, you can see an example of each of the levels of Blooms Taxonomy and a quick description of the level. I believe we should always be pushing our students to try and achieve a higher level of thinking and learning. 

When it comes to student teaching the the Spring, I plan to use this and several of the hooks we have been learning about. I want to build my lessons so that I am pushing the students to think at higher levels as the semester goes on. I also want to students to have fun in the classes I will be teaching which is why I will be using some of the E-Moments we practiced and learned in class (The Little Professor and The Meteorologist were my two favorites).