Chapter Thirteen Reflection
Chapter 13 Reflection Description Instructional and behavioral objectives are important when planning lessons and units. Formal and informal assessment of these objectives throughout the lessons are key to ensuring that the objectives are met. Analysis "Setting out objectives at the beginning of a course is an essential step in providing a framework into which individual lessons will fit" (Slavin, 2015, p.340). These objectives give the teacher a guideline and goal as to what the students should learn in a unit or lesson. Without these objectives, it is easy for the teacher to spend too much time on one thing and not enough in another. This leads to ineffectiveness. "An instructional objective , sometimes called a behavioral objective, is a statement of skills or concepts that students are expected to know at the end of some period of instruction" (Slavin, 2015, p. 340). These objectives serve as a map for lessons. When planning objectives, th...