I always believed that writing objectives well consisted in writing the form and function of the language we wanted students to master or learn. Besides teaching English, I also teach methodology to students who want to become teachers, and I usually made sure my studenst included the objective when presenting a class. However, even when I knew there were different ways to write objectives, I tell you that I had never heard about the ABCD objective before. What I found most surprising is that this ABCD model is not completely new. It has been quite popular for almost 10 years.
When I first read about it, I found a little useless to include the A and the D (audience and degre), but the more I read about it, I noticed that including both steps, it made the whole objective clearer and more organized. I read some more information about the ABCD objective in this page, and the examples given are really useful if you want to write your objectives. You should check this page:
www.mdfaconline.org/presentations/ABCDmodel.doc
Katya
Hi Katya,
ReplyDeleteI have also never heard about ABCD methods before this time, but I am using very similar one. It's nice to know that this method has been used for about 10 years.
Thank you for this useful website and document. I am going to save it and bookmark that website.
Have a nice day!
Hilal
Hi Katya
ReplyDeleteIt is good post and thanks for the document about ABCD Model.
From my point of view I am also same as you and Hilal that its my first time to know about this method of setting behavior objective in teaching but as you say there is common parts with what we use on writing our class objective where we have to mention the student , behavior ,and how to evaluate the results.
Best regards and nice to study together :)
Nasser
http://webskills4teachers.blogspot.com/
Hi Hilal and Nasser
ReplyDeleteIt is really nice to know that two people are experiencing the same as me. There is always something new to learn
Best regards
Katya