Title: Identify developmentally appropriate instructional objectives.
Course: Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow I (19151-I) > Section: Applying Professional Teaching Techniques

Identification should be based on

- taxonomy of educational objectives (e.g., Bloom’s Taxonomy)
- national curriculum or content standards
- state curriculum or content standards
- curriculum alignment
- pacing guides
- performance and learning objectives
- descriptions, conditions, and criteria for instructional objectives.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What are the key parts of an instructional objective?
- How do teachers create instructional units within a course plan?

Communication

- How can teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy to plan questions that target different levels of thinking?
- Why is it important for teachers to communicate instructional objectives with students?

Leadership

- What are instructional units?
- What role do instructional objectives play in meeting educational standards?

Management

- Why is it important for a state or local curriculum to determine what will be taught at each grade level?
- How do teachers evaluate a lesson?