Don't object to objectives
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This document discusses objectives for a training course and provides guidance on developing objectives. Objectives define what students will be able to do after completing a course. They serve as an agreement between the instructor and students and help motivate students. Objectives should guide course development and structure content into discrete skills. Objectives can be derived from curriculum needs, technical requirements, or existing student knowledge. The document recommends writing labs first then deriving objectives from the skills needed to complete the labs.
Don't object to objectives
- 1. Don’t Object to Objectives orip@us.ibm.com © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 2. Objectives When you complete this unit, you can perform the following tasks: Fill this section of the presentation template Feel you are doing something useful while doing it 2 IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 3. What are objectives? Document of understanding (DoU) between the course developer or instructor and the student. • If you listen, read, and do the labs • You will gain “x” (typically being able to do something) 3 IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 4. Why bother with objectives? Guide the course developer Motivate the audience WII FM – What’s In It For Me? Provide mental scaffolding Standard ways to communicate the subtasks Help understand the different steps 4 IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 5. Objective form Traditional Given x, do y to z standard Given two three digit numbers, add them accurately 90% of the time. Invented for settings that have tests 5 Our style: Do y Add two three digit numbers. “Given whatever you need to do this” and “correctly” are implied Not a good base for tests, but who cares IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 6. Where do the objectives come from? Curriculum design: We need students to be able to “x” • Management asks for it • You identify a skill gap Technical knowledge: • To do “x”, you need to do “a”, “b”, and “c”. • You can’t do “a”, unless you know “a1” and “a2”. Student analysis: • Most of our people already know “b” and “a2”. • We don’t need to teach these topics or call them objectives, although we probably will need to go through them at the lab. 6 x a b c a1 a2 IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 7. The lazy way to do objectives Write labs to achieve the top level objective See what is required for the labs Write those as your objectives 7 IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.
- 8. Summary Now that you have completed this unit, you can perform the following tasks: Fill this section of the presentation template Feel you are doing something useful while doing it 8 IBM Software Group | Security Division © 2013 IBM Corp.