Chapter 3 - Moore

Chapter 3- Setting Goals and Objectives- Moore

Moore

Moore focuses his proper goals and objectives for the classroom. Looking at the need for accountability on teachers leading to national, state and district standards for performance under “No Child Left Behind.” Looking at the impact of this reform on special needs students—having IEPs, Section 504 students, and ELL students. The academic success of all students is tightly tied to the success of the teachers in interpreting and implementing the standards. Moore marks objective is a statement about what students should be able to do after instruction; these are components of standards. Goals are broader statements used to describe purposes of schooling or a course whereas objectives are more narrowly focused. Moore writes that objectives are to be made up of four elements: that they spell out the terminal behavior or performance, specify the product, describe the conditions, and state the criteria. There is introduction of three learning domains: cognitive domain, the affective domain, and the psychomotor domain. It seems that the best instruction would include consideration of all three. The chapter was a bit dense, but provided some good insight in terms of developing instruction and instruction strategies from standards, ever since emphasis that has been placed on them with NCLB.