Aligning Aims, Objectives and AssessmentPresented by Enita Barrett

Mini Lessonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=6Tv6gQgj0VQhttps://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumWtHOOvy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UR-l3QI2nE

QuizTeacher:

Sing the row your boat song, just the way I taught you.

Formative Assessment Results

Why is it that only 50% of the students got the correct answer?

Never wander into your class aimlessly (Barrett, 2015)

My Presentation todayAim-.

Objectives: - Activities

Aims and Objectiveone starting point for effective

teaching.serve as a means of clarifying

our intent, for student learningassist in selection of teaching

strategies, design of assessment

DifferencesAim - broad general statements of what students are expected to learn.

- The aim is about what you hope to do.Objective

- Are the specific steps you will take to achieve your aim.

Aim or Objective

I just want to get home and relax all weekend long. Yep! All weekend long

If your aim is to have fish for dinner, which is the better objective?

ObjectivesWrite objectives in observable

behavioral terms if the objective has been achieved,

there must be a clearly observable outcome.

Competency based objectives include a measurable performance standard, and

the conditions under which the objective is to be achieved

ObjectiveYou have to make the objectives

relatively precise.Objectives have to be practical,

do-able and achievablebe clear about what the end

point of each step/objective will be, and how it will help achieve the aim.

Things that can go wrong There maybe too many aims. One or two is usually

enough. aims and objectives need to be concise and

economically expressed.aims and objectives don’t connect – the steps that are

to be taken don’t match up with the overall intention.The aims and the objectives are not differentiated,

they are basically the same things but said in different words.

The objectives are a set of stages.The objectives should match with the research

methods – in other words they are either not do-able, or what is to be done won’t achieve the desired results.

Assessmentassessments - a way for the

student to prove they are capable of that mastery.

Aims and objectives must be durable and your assessment must be sturdy

ASSESS MENT

Aims

A lesson is aligned when:Aim is clear and concise.objectives express the kinds of

understanding that we want from students,

- the teaching context encourages students to undertake the learning

activities likely to achieve those understandings, the assessment tasks tell students what

activities are required of them, and tell us how well the objectives have been met.

ReferencesBiggs, J.B. 1996. Enhancing teaching

through constructive alignment. Higher Education, 32: 1–18. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®]

http://teachonline.asu.edu/2012/10/aligning-assessments-with-learning-objectives/

Align aims, objective and assessme (n.d) retrieved from

http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/howto/basics/objectives.html

My Lesson Today Aim- facilitate activities that will make participants

realize the importance of matching lesson aim, objective and assessment.

Objectives: Participants will be able to: Demonstrate alignment of lesson aim, objective and assessment by drawing and labeling a body analogy of a lesson plan and explaining the lesson alignment to the rest of the participants.

- Participate in an of aimless lesson- Discuss ways to improve mini lesson- Categorize scenarios into aims or objectives- Draw and label a body analogy of a lesson plan- Critique peer lesson plan