WGU-C368: Instructional Planning & Presentation In Elementary Education

Standards: - Answer- -Statements that describe the subject matter students should know and perform at each grade level. -This course of study identifies standards as the most general expressions of our values to develop and guide curricula for students Teachers need to ensure that all of the necessary _______________ ___________ are being met to make sure students receive the best education possible. - Answer- -state standards Goals: - Answer- -Statements that describe what schools are expected to accomplish. -Derived from standards. Contain more specific information about what must be accomplished at a particular grade level. Short-Term Goals: - Answer- -Goals that can reasonably be achieved in one semester or half a year. Long-Term Goals: - Answer- -Goals that might take up to a full academic year to achieve. Instructional Objective: - Answer- -A statement of intended learning outcomes of the instruction. -The most specific of the three (standards, goals, objectives). Usually include the condition in which students must demonstrate the behavior and a minimum level of proficiency - criterion. Instructional objectives serve several purposes: - Answer- (1) provide a focus for instruction (2) provide guidelines for learning (3) provide targets for formative and summative assessments (4) convey instructional intent to others (5) provide for evaluation of instruction Types of Instructional Objectives: - Answer- 1. Behavioral Objectives 2. Descriptive Objectives Behavioral Objectives: - Answer- -State what is to be learned in language that specifies student actions, testing conditions, and performance criterion. They have 3 parts: 1. Action— identifying the action that the teacher expects students to perform 2. Conditions—This is set of conditions or circumstances under which learning will take place. 3. Criterion—