Dear coleagues,
I am again here to share my reflection on A.B.C.D objective writing and choosing the target class for the final project.
Our course becoming engaging, interesting and challenging step by step . I am happy that I am learning from you all.
I questioned first when I saw the ABCD letters What is it? Why ABCD? Later I got its' meaning after reading Unit 2 article about writing objectives . Inquiring Bloom's taxonomy and reviewing it. I applied ABCD idea into my practice during developing lesson plan objectives. It is really helpful and guide us how to put language objectives and not to forget about D point ( how much ours students to learn and how it measured) After several practice I managed it and even implemented in to my teaching process. May be you know or not about sytem of assessment in our country we use "5" mark assessment. Sometiomes this mark is become subjective. But planning objectives as D help us to see what should we assess, how to measure our studnets learning.
After that the next question apperead in my mind: should we all time to write ABCD while writing our objectives or it is enough to keep them in our mind and write our objectives? I questioned Robert and my other colleagues. I hope I will soon get answer. I hope my other colleagues felt the same challenges. If you have good experience and felling with abcd concept share with me, please.
Secondly I want to share my view point about selection target group to my final project. If to say truth I was so challenged what target group can be appropriate for me . At least, I decided to choose Grade 11 and ESL teahers who are now doing their E-teacher course with me. They are adults and know computer well. Majority of my students have computer skills and computers connected with internet. I have requeted and taught how to open nicenet.org for getting information from me. You see how this my learning making my life easy and interesting. I can sit at home and communicate with my students and engage them to learn English sharing web sites with them through on-line. I am so happy for that.
What about you?
Happy and so thankful to instructors and colleagues,
Gulnara
Hello, Gulnara,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your experience this week and questions you had about the ABCD objective. I had similar questions, so let me share my thoughts about the frequency of writing objectives.
Robert mentioned that it is something you share with your students. I can see that a well-written ABCD objective will get everyone on the same page. The thing is, it is possible to write an ABCD objective for almost anything we do in class. It is a good reminder for us teachers that we know why we are doing what we are doing in class. But it is not practical to do so. Therefore, I would try my best to be aware of it all the time and write a good ABCD objective and share it with students at least when the task is new, complicated, or important.
That's how I feel right now and I'll see how it goes as I try.
Have a great one,
Sam
Dear Sam,
DeleteThank you for sharing your view point about ABCD objectives. Yes you are right, it is so important first to develop SMART objectives in order to achieve required outcomes in teaching. When we write all time ABCD letters in our objectives, I think it confuses us. To keep ABCD letters in my mind and use Bloom's Taxonomy key verbs during developing lesson objectives more useful and practical.I share it also with my colleagues , too.
The ABCD idea is so helpful and practical itself. Sometimes really we forgot to add to our objectives "D" part which is so important to measure our students' level of language proficiency and needs for improvement.
Thanks once more,
Gulnara