Lesson Outcomes

Do you find yourself spending ages coming up with your lesson outcomes or objectives or struggle to differentiate?

USING LEVELLED LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This leaflet re-emphasizes the impact that using objectives effectively can have on student progress and the climate for learning in all classrooms in all lessons. Clear guidance is given and the setting of good learning objectives is non-negotiable at John of Gaunt.

Why bother?

Levelled objectives:-

§ Focus planning
§ Ensure that all students are challenged and motivated
§ Improve behaviour
§ Make sure activities are relevant
§ Lead to more effective learners
§ Help students to ‘enjoy and achieve’

Kelly Hearn-Smith has visited many schools as an Advanced Skills Teacher and one teacher she has supported stated:

“using differentiated levelled objectives had an immediate impact. I couldn’t believe how such a little thing could make such a huge improvement to my lessons”.

IT IS ESSENTIAL TO PLAN YOUR LESSONS FROM THE OBJECTIVES – THEY GUIDE YOUR PLANNING

Most teachers have adopted the:

§ I must …
§ I should …
§ I could …

framework.

NB:-

§ Learning objectives must be shared and visual.
§ Objectives are part of a lesson structure that includes a starter activity and a plenary.
§ Learning tasks are designed so that the objectives are met.
§ Learning objectives are not about tasks, they are about student understanding.
§ The following information is designed to help all teachers use language that is to do with understanding when setting objectives.

Always tell the students why this lesson is important or relevant

LEVELLED OBJECTIVES – A KS3 EXAMPLE

BLOOMS LANGUAGE TO USE IN OBJECTIVES

APPROX NATIONAL CURRICULUM LEVELS

Level 3/4: I must Understand and Comprehend

Name, state, define, give examples, identify, sort, categorise, classify, recall, recognise, locate, describe, assess, clarify, examine, interpret, reflect, summarise, decide.

Level 5/6: I should Analyse and Apply

Apply your knowledge to, demonstrate, model, implement, organise, sequence, visualise. Identify patterns, components, cause problems, consequences. Prioritise, infer.

Level 7/8: I could: Synthesise and Evaluate

Create, improve, develop, adapt, combine, convert, design, formulate, hypothesise, juxtapose, link, plan, predict, make, transform, translate, judge, justify, critically evaluate, compare and contrast, discriminate, distinguish, experiment, extrapolate.

AND ALSO:

· Do you know (from available data) which students will be working to achieve the learning objectives in your lessons?

· Have you told the students individually and sensitively (not publicly) which objective is their goal in a lesson.

· Do your objectives and consequently your planning enable students to have 70% student activity and 30% maximum teacher activity?

· Does the plenary allow every student to assess which objective they achieved and even to write on their work,

“in today’s lesson I focused on a level _____ objective”.


HOMEWORK

You can use the plenary and review to set individual homework tasks in the light of individual progress in a lesson