It amazes me the number of hours it takes to put all this information together. Wade, Matt (group members), and myself spent a lot of hours at Murray High School (where Wade works) putting this document together. A lot of those hours were us trying to figure out what was actually going to go into the instruction that we would be creating. The chapter about writing objectives in our reading was the chapter I reviewed the most during the course. Also, I spent a lot of time looking at Dr. Monson’s power point on objectives. For me, it was getting the correct language for the objectives that felt crucial. We knew what we wanted the learners to be able to do, but trying to say that became difficult at times. Bloom’s taxonomy list of words helped out a lot.
The other frustrating part was trying to create assessments that matched the objectives. I guess part of my problem is I don’t want to duplicate assessments for different objectives. But if I don’t, I think I would run out of assessment ideas. I’m in the high school teaching mode of testing I don’t think that these assessments need to be exactly like that.
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Posted by Beth on December 14, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I feel your pain. When getting ours together to turn in I started wondering why I didn’t format everything the same. Way to plan ahead. The actual materials in the doc were a lot of work but nothing compared to unbolding/underlining weird stuff.