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As a course participant of " University of Oregon-AEI's Building Teaching Skills Through The Interactive Web - Fall 2014" program, I take great pleasure in creating and updating this blog. In the Webskills Homepage, my reflections on what I learned each week and how I intend to implement my learning in my work as a teacher will be the main area of focus. In the India: My Homeland Page, I would like to share with you some anecdotes from my life, stories regarding my students, the schooling system in my country and a few snippets about India. Thank you for visiting. Please, do leave your valuable comments.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

ABCD Behavioral Learning Objectives – Week 2, Post 2

I had no clue about what this “ABCD” was. I was “????????”

I started reading up the material provided for Week 2. Going through “How to Write Clear Objectives” (Ref#1) from Pennsylvania State University’s Teaching and Learning Office and “Classifying Objectives” (Ref#2) from the Innovative Technology Centre at the University of Tennessee helped to clear most of my doubts. I had heard about Bloom’s Taxonomy earlier, but had never used it actively in teaching as the methods applied in my school are very different. We, the Webskills participants, were all supposed to put forth our own ABCD (Audience-Behavior-Condition-Degree) model objectives by the end of the week. Some of the participants knew about this, some had used it or were using it regularly.

I was totally at sea!

I re-read the articles! I re-re-read them!!

Then I started with my set of ABCD objectives. I decided that if I had to do it, I would do it well. I decided to work with the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy’s six levels of classification of learning objectives. So, I started with the first and the lowest level in the Cognitive Domain – Remembering Level. Once I could write my ABCD objectives for this level, I did not have to look back. I could do the rest. Yippee!!


Now, I know that I am going to plan each and every class of mine with the help of the “ABCD” objectives. It would also be clear to the students what is expected of them.

We were also asked to describe a class as part of the first step towards our final project. This was easy. Just that I had to do the whole work twice. I had prepared a nice table with all the answers neatly formatted. Unfortunately, after several attempts and various methods I failed to upload my table. I had to do it all over again. I have yet to learn how to upload a table on the Nicenet platform.

Looking forward to Week 3!!

 References:
1. http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/objectives/writingobjectives/
2. http://edtech2.tennessee.edu/projects/bobannon/classifications.html
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