Practice, Practice, Practice!!

As Dr. Smirnova says, "Practice, Practice, Practice!" Which rings very very true for learning how to write out objectives! For me, it was very confusing how to write out these objectives for my Unit plan on Communities around the United States , but I think I finally got it down!
1. Pick a standard, such as History of the United States and New York 2. Pick a key idea from that standard, such as "important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions from New York State and United States history illustrate the connections and interactions of people and events across time and from a variety of perspectives". 3. Pick goals you want the students to achieve in the lesson, Student will know about the history of the community they live in. 4. Pick out a performance indicator from the standard, "Students gather and organize information about the traditions transmitted by various groups living in their neighborhood and community." 5. Write out an objective, Given books on their community, have the student create a timeline following a rubric and scoring at least 3/4. An important thing to remember when writing out your objective is you have to follow CBC. Condition-Behavior-Criteria. The condition is the setting of the tasks and materials. Behavior measures what the student is expected to do and criteria is important because it says where a student should be performing at a certain time. These are important to be included in the objectives because it focuses on the student and on getting them to a higher level of learning. There is so much information coming in to help develop this Unit Plan, and each piece of information that is coming in is making me realize how much goes into making a Unit Plan. And with each thing I learn I get more and more excited to see the Unit Plan come together and to see the finished product. I feel like this class will be coming in handy for many, many years to come!