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Guiding Question
What do you want students to know and be able to do at the end of the lesson?
How will they demonstrate these skills and knowledge?
What language forms and functions will they need to use to demonstrate their understandings?
Objectives are the basic way to communicate the overall goal of a lesson. Learning objectives should communicate both what students should be able to do and how they will demonstrate that learning. Here are a few resources and visuals to help with your lesson planning:
Ways to Write Lesson Objectives
Ways to Write Lesson Objectives
Know/Do Format:
Students will (target skill/ understanding) by (student created product)
Students will demonstrate and understanding of (target understanding) by (student created product)
Do/Reason Format:
Students will (student created product) to demonstrate (target skill/ understanding).
Example Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to identify themes in "The Things They Carried" by completing a graphic organizer with themes and text evidence.
Students will be able to differentiate between models of democracy and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages by writing a concept application FRQ.
SWBAT use function notation and evaluate functions for a given input by analyzing tables, graphs & equations.
Language Objectives:
Language Objectives:
All of our students benefit from explicit instruction of Academic Language. As such, BCPS teachers are expected to include language objectives in their lesson plans. Writing learning objectives that include a language target helps teachers plan the explicit instruction of important language forms and functions into their lessons. This language objective template is a useful resource for planning language objectives. You can also combine language and content objectives using the format below.
Combined Language + Content Objective Template:
Combined Language + Content Objective Template:
Students will be able to (target skill/understanding) with (target langauge form/function) using supports/scaffolds to (student created product).
Example Language + Objective:
Students will be able to analyze the reliablity of primary source documents with compare and contrast language using a graphic organizer with sentence frames to write an argumentative paragraph.
Helpful verbs for writing objectives:
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