Email Leslie Back to Homepage Copyright and Usage A little Inspiration About Leslie Journal Articles On Line Best Picks - Books and Videos Graduate Exam Questions Teachers are powerful people and keepers of the future. Help your students dream big! copyright Leslie Owen Wilson Creativity Index Curriculum Index Sample Lesson Plans Models of Teaching and Learning  Reflective Teacher Index Newer Views of Learning Index Professional  Links     Wilson's Curriculum Pages - Behavioral Objectives Back More curriculum links: Curriculum -- What is it? Backwards design-an overview Behavioral objectives Holistic objectives Nonbehavioral objectives Problem solving objectives Expressive activities that lead to expressive outcomes Cognitive Objectives  New version of Bloom's Taxonomy Affective Objectives Psychomotor Objectives Sample lessons Samples of Problem Solving Lessons Other links to information about this topic:   More on the cognitive domain       Behavioral Objectives: These types of objective indicate the specific behaviors students must demonstrate to indicate that learning has occurred. Advantages: They are easy to write. They are easier to categorize by domain (Cognitive, affective, physical/kinesthetic/tactile). They are more easily evaluated. ( usually by objective methods.) May easily be designated for horizontal enrichment or vertical acceleration into categories of: must know need to know nice to know or categories like: introduced, developed, mastered. See Creating more personalized educational pathways through prioritized objectives Using the aforementioned district aim and goal concerning the understanding and development of spoken English proficiency, here are three examples of behavioral objectives in all three domains: (and yes, the examples are meant to be a bit bizarre.) Examples: Aim: Students will understand and become proficient at identifying the different types of spoken English. Goal: Students will be able to identify and use American slang terms and phrases. Cognitive: Students will identify and list 5 slang terms they have heard from their peers. Affective: Student will choose 3 of the most offensive slang terms from a list developed by the entire class. Physical: Students will create expressive gestures to go with their favorite slang terms. Please note that in two of the objectives, specific evaluation criteria have been built in. This is one of the strengths of behavioral objectives. The advantage to creating more holistic objectives (ones that fall into more than one domain) is that this process creates additional neural pathways. This allows learners to more easily remember material and processes. In the past there has been an over dependence on writing just cognitive objectives. It will be easier to develop holistic objectives in some areas of study over others. For instance, some educators find it hard to form affective objectives in the area of math. While this may be true, it is imperative for educators not to intentionally ignore instances where an array of domains can be included in lessons. Practice: This links to a page that can be printed and used to practice writing objectives.

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