Exercise 9.1 Developing Learning Objectives

Describe briefly an educational program for which you will act as the instructor or be part of an instructional team.

The week prior to the start of the school year when teachers return to prepare, I have been asked to act as a facilitator for 4 sessions during the day designated as professional development for all teachers in the school district. I will be presenting each hour and thirty minute session to teachers from across the school district and grade levels. I will be able to choose my topic and objective for the sessions. The only guidelines I have been given are that the sessions need to be student centered, relevant, and geared toward enhancing student engagement. My session will be titled: “Using Technology to Enhance Student Learning & Engagement”

Develop a set of learning objectives for your part of the program using the following format. Complete each part for each objective, as appropriate.

The Learner, Action Verb, Content…
The learner will be able to use surveymonkey.com to enhance student learning and engagement within the classroom.
The learner will be able to use GoogleDocs to enhance student collaboration, learning, and engagement within the classroom.
The learner will be able to use a jeopardy template in PowerPoint to develop engaging review sessions for the classroom.
The learner will be to use www.edublogs.org to enhance student writing, journaling, learning, and engagement within the classroom.

Conditions under which the learning is to be demonstrated …
The session will take place in a computer lab so that the facilitator can demonstrate and the learners can practice as the session progresses.
The session will be hands-on, real time application of what is being learned.

Criteria for Acceptable Performance…
The learners’ ability to make use of each part of the session within the classroom will be the criteria for acceptable performance.
The purpose of this session is to provide the learners with additional technology tools to use in the classroom to make learning more engaging and relevant to the students.