Learning Objectives and Teaching Strategies
Keywords:
Teaching strategies, Curriculum development, Instructional design, Gagné's learning domains, Transfer of learningAbstract
Models of curriculum development typically involve the specification of objectives followed by selection of learning experiences and content in order to achieve those objectives. However, objectives are usually not specified in ways that can be directly linked to modes of learning and strategies are often not appropriate for the objectives they are designed to achieve. A proposal is made for division of objectives into five categories suggested by Gagné: verbal knowledge, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, attitudes, and motor skills. Key elements in instruction for each of these categories are described and a number of teaching strategies are outlined, with most illustrations related to topics in social studies, although the underlying principles apply generally.
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