Week 2 - ABCD Objectives and Web Searching engines

This week, we learned the ABCD model to write instructional objectives using a standard protocol where we define: audience, behaviour, condition and degree to place them together and come on with objectives that reflect specific, observable, and measurable learning outcomes.

In order to accomplish this goal, we had to analyze what an objectives is and distinguish the ABCD method from other ones in order to compare and see how it works and can be applied in real examples. In my case I propose the following example:

ABCD Method for Objectives

• Audience (A) – The group of learners I teach belong to seven level of the English program. There are 18 students and they speak English at a high level. The course I teach is Curriculum design and Materials.
• Behavior (B) – will be able to choose the teaching techniques for designing a lesson to teach simple present to high school learners.
• Condition (C) – after analyzing a list of ten examples of techniques for teaching grammar.
• Degree (D) – mastery (100%) at least three techniques out of five.

OBJECTIVE:

“Provided with a list of ten examples of techniques for teaching grammar, students will be able to choose at least three suitable teaching techniques out of five for teaching simple present to high school learners.”

How the teacher will achieve this objective:

The teacher will provide learners with a list of ten teaching techniques. There will be different examples, contexts and situation where they can be more suitable to use. Among those techniques for teaching grammar are :

• Analysis of examples to determine the sentence patterns or structure
• Completion exercises where clues and hints are provided for students to apply the grammar content knowledge
• Minimal sentence pairs
• Scramble and unscramble sentences

Web searching

Additionally, we learned to use a wide variety of web searching engines which offer a wide variety and quantity of information resources. Search engines are not limited to Google and Wikipedia. We could realize that there is an enormous amount and variety of search engines that enriches the Internet, making it at least appear to be organized and saving searching time.

Noodletools has a list of useful search engines to easy find didactic resources in short time since they have the option to refined to have more precise results.