Week 4 - Weekly Reflection

“Skill to do comes of doing” Emerson (1803-1882). What a marvelous quotation! To me what an experience. I have never come to realize that the more one does at something the more familiar it becomes to him. In this context, I would like, in brief, to say that I have read many articles about reading and writing, in the text appear some links, and curiosity makes me surf through other fields. From these findings I have learnt, for instance, that objectives are not merely verbs in infinitive, but meaningful dynamic ones that serve specific goals; even in my mother tongue, the word objectives are meant as specific or basic competences, for example, communicate, select, apply are specific competences, whereas hear, take notes, analyze are basic competences.

In English, however, the word objective appears much clearer. For example, the experts at Tennessee University have classified the instructional objectives into three categories, i.e. specific, outcome based, and measurable; besides the Bloom’s Taxonomy, which classifies the stages of learning into six levels, i.e. remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating is seen as simpler to digest the helpful 100.  A very important point that I have learnt and that I will not ever forget is the A.B.C.D. method for writing objectives. All these elements will be taken into account when planning a lesson. This is my reflection. I believe that you, too, might like to follow this address: 

http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/classifications.html

Holguer