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Principles of Teaching 1 June 4 52022
Principles of Teaching 1 June 4 52022
2. Exercise.
3. Allot time to study everyday.
4. Read a book everyday.
5. Pray and believe.
1. Pray.
2. Sit properly.
3. Shade in one direction.
4. Prepare 2 pencils and 2 ballpens.
5. Listen to the instruction.
6. Always check the item you are
answering.
7. Eat your lunch.
8. Don’t leave any number blank.
8. When erasing, include the
back portion.
9. What set are you answering?
10.Don’t cheat.
11. Pray.
What if there were no teachers
in this world?
There will be no
professionals
without the
teachers. Agree
or disagree?
Principles and Methods of
Teaching 1
Principles of Teaching
• The word principles is derived from the Latin
word “princeps” meaning the beginning or end
of all things.
• It is a comprehensive law or doctrine from which
others are derived or on which others are
founded.
• According to L.T. Hopkins, a principle is a rule
for guiding the ship of education so that it will
reach the point designated by the philosophy of
education: it is a compass by which the path of
education is directed.
Types of Principles of Teaching
1. Starting Principles- refer to the nature of the
child, his psychological and physiological
endowments.
2. Guiding Principles- the methods of instruction,
or the conglomeration of techniques in carrying out
the educative process.
3. Ending Principles- educational aims and
objectives.
a. Psychological-growth and development of the
child.
b. Philosophical-based on the culture of the people.
WHY DO WE
TEACH?
What is Learning?
• Learning is a process by which behavior is either
modified or wholly changed through experience
or training.
WHAT IS TEACHING?
• The process of engaging students in
activities that will enable them to acquire
knowledge, skills, as well as worthwhile
values and attitudes.
Teacher
Learner Environment
The Triadic Element of Teaching
Teacher
Learner Environment
The Learner
• most important element of teaching
• All learners are equipped with the cognitive and
appetitive faculties.
• They differ however in the degree to which they
are utilized and expressed on account of the
learners’ abilities, aptitudes, interests,
values and attitudes and home
background.
1. Ability (skills)
• It determines their capacity to understand and
assimilate information for their own use and
application.
• As learners they differ in the way they observe
and interpret happenings in their surroundings.
2. Aptitude
• Personal significance
• Clear and consistent limit
• Sense of competence
• Affection
• Wide range of self-
expression
• Transcendence
• Affiliation
Multiple Intelligence
Howard gardner-10 intelligences
• With Howard Gardner’s theory on MI, the
concept of the learner’s intelligence has gone
beyond linguistic and mathematical
intelligence. There are 10 intelligences other
than linguistic and mathematical.
Traditional conceptions on intelligence
• Intelligence is hereditary (Plato)
• Intelligence can be measured through a
test ( F. Galton, J. Catell, A. Binnet, T.
Simon.)
• Individuals were born like blank slates
(John Locke)
• Intelligence is a unitary trait and different
levels (L.Terman) (IQ)
HOWARD GARDNER’s
10 INTELLIGENCES
Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence-
(“word smart”)
The ability to use language to express spoken
words and written meanings: to read and write.
Ex. teachers, poet, journalist, Editor, copy writer,
religious leaders and politicians.
Types of activities
Debates, poetry, jokes, speeches, reading, story
telling, reports.
2. Logical-mathematical-
intelligence(“number/ reasoning smart)
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Puzzles, patterns, outlines, equations,
formulas, computations, logic.
3. SPATIAL INTELLIEGNCE
(“PICTURE SMART”)
Good visual memory: The ability to recognize a
shape when it appears in a new context.
Ex. architect, artist, photographer, tour guide.
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Mosaics, paintings, drawings, maps,
symbols, photographs, posters.
4. Bodily – kinesthetic intelligence
(“ body smart)
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Role playing, dramatization, games, sports,
Body language.
5. MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
(“ MUSIC SMART”)
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Songs, beats, instruments, compositions,
melodies, raps, jingle, choir.
6. Interpersonal intelligence
(“ people smart”)
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Group projects, group games, social
interaction, dialogs, group tasks,
communications
7. Intrapersonal intelligence
(“self-smart”)
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Reflections, insights, self-assessment
8. naturalist/physical world intelligence
(“nature smart”)
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES
Discussion on life and religion, reading
about philosophers and philosophies.
10. Moral intelligence
Teacher
Learner Environment
The Teacher
Who is a professional teacher?
• The professional teacher is the “licensed
professional who possesses dignity and
reputation and with high moral values as well as
technical and professional competence...she/he
adheres to, observes, and practices a set of
ethical and moral principles, standards and
values.”
1. A professional teacher must have a deep
understanding of the theoretical knowledge
about learning and human behavior.
Teacher
Learner Environment
The learning environment is the place where teaching and
learning can take place in the most effective and productive
manner.
1. Arrangement of furniture
2. Physical condition of the classroom
3. Classroom Proceedings
4. Interactions
1. A physical learning environment that is clean,
orderly, well-ventilated, well-lighted,
spacious that allow movements, and free
from unnecessary distractions is conducive
to learning.
2. A non-threatening classroom atmosphere where
people feel they are respected and accepted for who
they are is a conducive atmosphere for learning.
3. Learning environment that facilitates learning. It is
an environment:
* which encourages people to be active.
* which promotes and facilitates the individual’s
discovery of the personal meaning of idea.
* which consistently recognize people’s right to
make mistakes.
*in which people feel free they are respected.
*in which people feel they are accepted.
Transfer of Learning (TOL)
When students recognize
a situation as something
similar in a way to what was
experienced before, the
tendency is to use the
knowledge and skills they
learned to a new situation.
Formal Discipline
• The formal discipline (or mental
discipline) approach to learning believed
that specific mental faculties could be
strengthened by particular courses of
training and that these strengthened
faculties transferred to other situations.
• A theory attributed to the Greek
philosopher Plato states that, if an individual
studies mathematics, that individual will
improve his (her) logical abilities.
Identical Elements
• E.L. Thorndike has developed this theory.
• Two identical factors or activities or
common factor transfer to total situation
where maximum transfer of learning or total
learning can be taken place. It goes from
matter to mind.
Generalization
• This theory is developed by C. Judd.
• In this theory transfer of learning takes
place primarily through generalization and
degree of transfer depends upon the
extent to which experiences in the first
situation are understood and consolidated
into generalization
Transposition
• It is advocated by Gestalt psychology.
Transfer starts in understanding the fact and
perception of similarity by the learner.
• It is known as pattern of relationship. It is
not the specific skills or facts or even
underlying principles which are important,
but the understanding of relationship
between facts, process and the principles
are the real basis of transfer.
TRY this.
1. Rose gave a follow-up exercise with a maximum supervision
after the expository demonstration in Algebra.
2. The teacher teaches Mathematics and as a result her pupils
improved their logical skills.
3. Karla shared a similar experience with her family after the
discussion of the story entitled ‘’The Necklace’’
4. Leslie gave a generalization about living and non-living things.
5. English class the teacher asks the students to find the
synonyms of the listed words taken in the story. She asks
them to use those in sentences for 15 minutes before the
class was dismissed.
Learning Activities for
Differentiated Instruction
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• OUTDOOR
• DISCUSSION
• DRAMATIC
MUSICAL
• SHARING AND LISTENING
Field Trip
• Otherwise known as an educational tour
where learners experience fun aside from
observation of the places to be visited. The
learners hop from one place to another
and list down things they see as their
insights to form a specific concept
development.
Ocular Visit
• An educational exposure for learners to
experience an ocular inspection of
realities in the workplace, market, village,
farm, industry, factory and many more.
Excursion
• A leisure outdoor activity like mountain
climbing, hiking, swimming, strolling,
jogging and many more.
Field Research
• An educational outdoor activity to
investigate a specific problem, issue
or phenomenon prevailing in a specific
locale.
Immersion
• Is an outdoor activity of staying and
living in the community or locale to
learn the basic practices, attitudes and
culture of the community.
Study Visit
• Refers to any form of visit for a
specialized purpose like museum visit,
visits to different schools or universities
known for innovation and different
strategies for success, art gallery visit, visit
to a tribal village, visit to farms and the
like.
Landscape Photography
• Is an outdoor art activity where students are
instructed to take pictures of the different
sceneries and lifestyles of people in the
environment.
Landscape Painting
• Is an outdoor art activity where students are
instructed to use their appreciation skills of the
environment they see through a painting
Lyrical composition
• Is a composition of song basically crafted under
the influence of nature like the wind, the flowing
water, flying butterfly, verdant forest, sounds of
the rain and many more.
Poetry writing
• Is an outdoor activity of writing poems basically
crafted under the influence of nature similar to
lyrical composition.
Symposium
• A discussion activity that generates
students’ multiple perspective in
contrived setting that characterizes a
different role of varied professions.
Panel
• Discussion activity that formed students
into group to discuss for an issue in big
crowd.
Buzz Session
• A discussion activity that generates
students’ understanding of facts and basic
information
• A very short discussion on a narrow topic
that involves simultaneous small group
work (usually in pairs) and stimulates
contribution from each member of the
participant group.
Brainstorming
• A discussion activity that utilizes the
pouring in process of ideas, an issue,
problem or development in which
participants are encouraged to think
without interruption
Debate
• A discussion activity that deals with
expositions and arguments with two
opposing teams, the affirmative and
negative sides.
Talk Show
• A discussion activity where the host
facilitates guests to engage in interplay of
expressing different views like
perspectives, agreements, and
disagreements in a cordial and
professional manner.
Forum
• A facilitated discussion address to a
bigger crowd or a class where majority
of the students are expected to express
their views after the designated speaker
gives his or her stand of the issue.
Members of the class are free to express
their own opinions and predicaments
based on solid ground and hard facts.
Caucus
• Refers to a conference of five members
of the team on important issues or
problems that need immediate solutions.
Members huddle and get the consensus of
everyone in the group.
Colloquium
• Refers to an informal meeting or seminar
which is usually of an academic nature
where different scholars/lecturers deliver
lectures on different topics at each
meeting.
Role Play
• Refers to an impromptu activity that makes use
of natural dialogues. No prepared script
is required. No costumes and no
props required.
Dramatization
• Refers to a formal activity primarily because of
they required costumes and props.
Written scripts and rehearsals are
required.
Simulation
• Refers to dramatic activity that makes use of
actions dependent on given narration
(narratives). Script is required.
Costume is also required. No
rehearsals.
Pantomime
• Refers to an activity where there is no script,
no dialogues, no costumes and
props are required. The success of the
activity is dependent with the use of non-verbal
cues.
Paint Me a Picture
• Is a version of a pantomime where the group of
students or performers is made to follow the
instruction and the situation given by a teacher
in a limited time. Speed is required by counting
off. After counting the performers are going to
count up to 5, and then they are expected to
freeze in order to determine the creativity of the
group to be declared as winners.
Picture Frame
• Is also a version of a pantomime where group of
student performers is given a contrived situation
to act. They are given few minutes to plan for a
depiction without telling the rest of the member
of the teams for the purpose of thrill and
excitement for possible guessing.
Street Theater
• Is another version of a pantomime where
students are made to act series of possible
situation of people’s realities in the community,
village, and locality.
Chamber Theater
• Is a combination of a simulation, play and
pantomime where students are made to perform
the role of the air, water, fire, soil, rocks,
animals, and plants, and the rest mythical
symbol.
• In chamber theater, narration is included in the
performed text and the narrator might be played
by multiple actors.
• However, each participant plays a dual role of
actor and a narrator. Moreover, there is a formal
narrator/s.
Humming
• Is a musical activity with the use of droning,
whining, and buzzing primarily blending the
desire human sounds.
Sound production
• Is the depiction of the blending of sounds of
nature such the sound of the rain, the splashes of
water, sounds of the waves, the sound of the
different group of animals, and the sounds of
different forms of transportation.
RAP presentation
• Is a musical activity where students sing their
composition in context of their lesson
engagement.
Chant
• Is a musical mantra where the students
composed as contextualization of the lesson
given to them .
• Usually have a repeated rhythmic phrase,
typically one shouted or sung in unison by a
crowd
Jingle
• Is a verse or words with simple catchy rhymes or
repetitive sounds applied in disciplinal or
situational contexts.
• The whole purpose of a jingle is to get a message
across in a short time frame.
Hymn
• Is also another musical mantra like that of chant
but emphasizes with more thematic sense
than catapulted lines and beats.
• Usually with musical accompaniment.
Playing musical instruments
• Is a musical activity of playing any musical
instrument or group of instruments to produce a
synchronized sound.
Ballad
• Is a classic love song that typifies original local
culture of the locality. (harana)
• A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set
to music.
• Example “Tanglaw”, “Ilaw”, and many more.
Country song
• Is a local song that depicts the peculiarity of the
nation’s practices ethos, and lifestyles.
• Example : “Rusas Pandan”, “Si Pilimon”, “Libis
ng Nayon” and many more.
Folk song
• Is a traditional song of a certain locality in the
rural area that depicts regional cultural heritage.
• Example is the Kapangpangan song “Atin Ko
Pong Singsing” and many more.
Suggestopedia
• A musical activity where a piece of music is
played while learners are performing the
learning task.
Dyadic sharing or Think-Pair-Sharing
• Is a sharing of issues and problems for
discussion with the use of face to face
interaction. This is composed of two members
in a group.
Triadic sharing
• Is sharing of issue and problems for discussion
with the use of face to face interaction. This is
composed of three members in the group.
Quadric sharing
• Is sharing of issues and problems for discussion
with the use of face to face interaction. This is
composed of four members in the group.
Journal writing
• Is basically writing insights of the lesson
learned, then to be shared in the group
discussion.
• Example: Diary
Synectics
• Is an activity instructing the learners to find or
pick any object that symbolizes their belief about
something, their concern about the environment
some other related factors.
• This activity also utilizes the use of figurative
language in the teaching and learning process
like: metaphor, simile, oxymoron, alliterate and
many more.
EXPOSITORY METHOD is a strategy of
utilizing students’ capacity to expound,
elaborate, to explain the concept being
developed.
1. Approach - refers to the teacher’s introduction
phase of the lesson that serves as his/her initial
attack with the lesson.
2. Presentation – refers to the different ways to
develop a lesson.
3. Application - refers to the varied situations or
activities where students may apply the
insights learned from the lesson in a more
meaningful setting.
DIRECT INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD begins with a
review of the previous lessons in order to
establish connection of the new lesson.
1. Review – develops readiness that sets the stage for
learning.
2. Presentation – provides necessity for learning. This may
use lecture, visual, films, demonstration, etc.
3. Guided Practice – allows learners to perform the task with
supervision of the teacher. This is an application of the Law
of Exercise.
4. Independent Practice – provides opportunity for
application and practice. This is an opportunity for the
learners make use of the principle of Transfer of Learning
(TOL)
5. Feedback – verifies the acquisition of essential information.
DEDUCTIVE METHOD begins with a generalization
and subsequently all examples specifies situations
to be given are supportive of this generalization
1. Introduction – the activation phase of the lesson that gives
background of the general statement of any lesson activity.
2. Generalization – this is the drawing out of the presentation
of the main idea or principles of the lesson such as
definitions, general statement, laws, etc.
3. Exemplification - this is the third step where the learners
are exposed to break the generalization into chunks of
ideas and give examples.
4. Illustration – this fourth step makes use of the detailed
examination of the formulated examples that obviously
become the students’ application of learning.
UNIT METHOD is a process of taking the contents
of a particular subject as big blocks and not an
isolated and fragmentary bits od information
1. Exploration – refers to the apperception part of the lesson.
2. Presentation – is the process of giving the bird’s eye view
of the whole episode of the subject matter, which serves as
an appetizer, energizes the student to learn.
3. Assimilation - is the process of data or information-
gathering activity in which is designed to solve problems,
to answer question, and to explain or expound on certain
topics
4. Organization – is the process of organizing the information
acquired in the assimilation.
5. Recitation – is the capstone of the technique when
students are ready to make an oral report.
INDIRECT METHOD is a method of teaching
opposite to direct instruction method.
1. Feedback – starts with any initiated set of materials or activities
prepared by the teacher.
2. Independent Practice – exposes the students to practice what
they get from the feedback through focused free-writing and
individual construction of the task for the purpose of self
discovery.
3. Guided Practice - exposes the students to have their work
validated or assisted by the teacher more especially if they have
any difficulty in the performance of the task in the independent
practice.
4. Presentation – refers to the staging of the students’ output in the
activity after they engaged in the guided practice.
5. Review – is the reassessment of the student performance based
from the existing standards in presentation of the lesson or from
their learning in the previous work.
TYPE STUDY METHOD is an inductive procedure
except that only one case is studied.
1. Selection of Typical Case – This step is crucial in the type
study method. The case or topic must be representative of
the group. It is the typical or average rather than the
exception that is needed.
2. Motivation – This background of the subject matter being
taught at hand like if it the taxi business, then the teacher
makes use of the justifiable increase of taxi rate
3. Statement of the Typical Case This is the presentation of
the typical subject matter to be studied, if it is in taxi
business, then the particular Taxi Company would be
presented like the Yellow Taxi Company.
TYPE STUDY METHOD is an inductive procedure
except that only one case is studied.
Evaluation: Make judgments about the Examples: Select the most effective
value of ideas or materials. solution. Hire the most qualified
candidate. Explain and justify a new
budget.
Key Words: appraises, compares,
concludes, contrasts, criticizes,
critiques, defends, describes,
discriminates, evaluates, explains,
interprets, justifies, relates,
summarizes, supports.
Synthesis/Creating: Builds a structure Examples: Write a company
or pattern from diverse elements. Put operations or process manual. Design
parts together to form a whole, with a machine to perform a specific task.
emphasis on creating a new meaning or Integrates training from several
structure. sources to solve a problem. Revises
and process to improve the outcome.
Key Words: categorizes, combines,
compiles, composes, creates, devises,
designs, explains, generates, modifies,
organizes, plans, rearranges,
reconstructs, relates, reorganizes,
Affective Domain
• The affective domain (Krathwohl, Bloom, Masia,
1973) includes the manner in which we deal with
things emotionally, such as feelings, values,
appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and
attitudes. The five major categories are listed
from the simplest behavior to the most complex.
Category Example and Key Words
Receiving Phenomena: Awareness, Examples: Listen to others with
willingness to hear, selected attention.. respect. Listen for and remember the
name of newly introduced people.
Key Words: asks, chooses, describes,
follows, gives, holds, identifies, locates,
names, points to, selects, sits, erects,
replies, uses.
Responding to Phenomena: Active Examples: Participates in class
participation on the part of the discussions. Gives a presentation.
learners. Attends and reacts to a Questions new ideals, concepts,
particular phenomenon. Learning models, etc. in order to fully
outcomes may emphasize compliance understand them. Know the safety
in responding, willingness to respond, rules and practices them.
or satisfaction in responding Key Words: answers, assists, aids,
(motivation). complies, conforms, discusses, greets,
helps, labels, performs, practices,
presents, reads, recites, reports,
selects, tells, writes.
Category Example and Key Words
Valuing: The worth or value a person Examples: Demonstrates belief in the
attaches to a particular object, democratic process. Is sensitive
phenomenon, or behavior. This ranges towards individual and cultural
from simple acceptance to the more differences (value diversity). Shows
complex state of commitment. Valuing the ability to solve problems. Proposes
is based on the internalization of a set a plan to social improvement and
of specified values, while clues to these follows through with commitment.
values are expressed in the learner's Informs management on matters that
overt behavior and are often one feels strongly about.
identifiable. Key Words: completes,
demonstrates, differentiates, explains,
follows, forms, initiates, invites, joins,
justifies, proposes, reads, reports,
selects, shares, studies, works.
Category Example and Key Words
Organization: Organizes values into Examples: Recognizes the need for
priorities by contrasting different balance between freedom and
values, resolving conflicts between responsible behavior. Accepts
them, and creating an unique value responsibility for one's behavior.
system. The emphasis is on Explains the role of systematic
comparing, relating, and synthesizing planning in solving problems. Accepts
values. professional ethical standards. Creates
a life plan in harmony with abilities,
interests, and beliefs. Prioritizes time
effectively to meet the needs of the
organization, family, and self.
Key Words: adheres, alters, arranges,
combines, compares, completes,
defends, explains, formulates,
generalizes, identifies, integrates,
modifies, orders, organizes, prepares,
relates, synthesizes.
Category Example and Key Words
Internalizing Examples: Shows self-reliance when
values (characterization): Has a value working independently. Cooperates in
system that controls their group activities (displays teamwork).
behavior. The behavior is pervasive, Uses an objective approach in problem
consistent, predictable, and most solving. Displays a professional
importantly, characteristic of the commitment to ethical practice on a
learner. Instructional objectives are daily basis. Revises judgments and
concerned with the student's general changes behavior in light of new
patterns of adjustment (personal, evidence. Values people for what they
social, emotional). are, not how they look.
Key Words: acts, discriminates,
displays, influences, listens, modifies,
performs, practices, proposes,
qualifies, questions, revises, serves,
solves, verifies.
Psychomotor Domain
• The psychomotor domain (Simpson, 1972)
includes physical movement, coordination, and
use of the motor-skill areas. Development of
these skills requires practice and is measured in
terms of speed, precision, distance, procedures,
or techniques in execution. The seven major
categories are listed from the simplest behavior
to the most complex:
Category Example and Key Words
Perception: The ability to use Examples: Detects non-verbal
sensory cues to guide motor communication cues. Estimate where
activity. This ranges from sensory a ball will land after it is thrown and
stimulation, through cue selection, to then moving to the correct location to
translation. catch the ball. Adjusts heat of stove to
correct temperature by smell and taste
of food. Adjusts the height of the forks
on a forklift by comparing where the
forks are in relation to the pallet.
Key Words: chooses, describes,
detects, differentiates, distinguishes,
identifies, isolates, relates, selects.
Category Example and Key Words
Set: Readiness to act. It includes Examples: Knows and acts upon a
mental, physical, and emotional sets. sequence of steps in a manufacturing
These three sets are dispositions that process. Recognize one's abilities and
predetermine a person's response to limitations. Shows desire to learn a
different situations (sometimes called new process (motivation). NOTE: This
mindsets). subdivision of Psychomotor is closely
related with the "Responding to
phenomena" subdivision of the
Affective domain.
Key Words: begins, displays,
explains, moves, proceeds, reacts,
shows, states, volunteers.
Guided Response: The early stages Examples: Performs a mathematical
in learning a complex skill that equation as demonstrated. Follows
includes imitation and trial and error. instructions to build a model.
Adequacy of performance is achieved Responds hand-signals of instructor
by practicing. while learning to operate a forklift.
Key Words: copies, traces, follows,
react, reproduce, responds
Category Example and Key Words
Mechanism: This is the intermediate Examples: Use a personal
stage in learning a complex computer. Repair a leaking faucet.
skill. Learned responses have become Drive a car.Key Words: assembles,
habitual and the movements can be calibrates, constructs, dismantles,
performed with some confidence and displays, fastens, fixes, grinds, heats,
proficiency. manipulates, measures, mends, mixes,
organizes, sketches.
Complex Overt Response: The Examples: Maneuvers a car into a
skillful performance of motor acts that tight parallel parking spot. Operates a
involve complex movement computer quickly and accurately.
patterns. Proficiency is indicated by a Displays competence while playing the
quick, accurate, and highly piano. Key Words: assembles, builds,
coordinated performance, requiring a calibrates, constructs, dismantles,
minimum of energy. This category displays, fastens, fixes, grinds, heats,
includes performing without manipulates, measures, mends, mixes,
hesitation, and automatic organizes, sketches.
performance. For example, players are NOTE: The Key Words are the same as
often utter sounds of satisfaction or Mechanism, but will have adverbs or
expletives as soon as they hit a tennis adjectives that indicate that the
ball or throw a football, because they performance is quicker, better, more
can tell by the feel of the act what the accurate, etc.
result will produce.
Category Example and Key Words
Adaptation: Skills are well developed Examples: Responds effectively to
and the individual can modify unexpected experiences. Modifies
movement patterns to fit special instruction to meet the needs of the
requirements. learners. Perform a task with a
machine that it was not originally
intended to do (machine is not
damaged and there is no danger in
performing the new task).
Key Words: adapts, alters, changes,
rearranges, reorganizes, revises, varies.
Origination: Creating new movement Examples: Constructs a new theory.
patterns to fit a particular situation or Develops a new and comprehensive
specific problem. Learning outcomes training programming. Creates a new
emphasize creativity based upon gymnastic routine.
highly developed skills. Key Words: arranges, builds,
combines, composes, constructs,
creates, designs, initiate, makes,
originates.
Dave's (1975)
• Imitation: Observing and patterning behavior after someone
else. Performance may be of low quality. Example: Copying a
work of art.
• Manipulation: Being able to perform certain actions by
following instructions and practicing. Example: Creating work
on one's own, after taking lessons, or reading about it.
• Precision: Refining, becoming more exact. Few errors are
apparent. Example: Working and reworking something, so it
will be ‘just right.’
• Articulation: Coordinating a series of actions, achieving
harmony and internal consistency. Example: Producing a video
that involves music, drama, color, sound, etc.
• Naturalisation: Having high level performance become
natural, without needing to think much about it. Examples:
Michael Jordan playing basketball, Nancy Lopez hitting golf
ball, etc.
Harrow's (1972)
• Reflex movements: Reactions that are not learned.
• Fundamental movements: Basic movements such as
walking, or grasping.
• Perception: Response to stimuli such as visual,
auditory, kinesthetic, or tactile discrimination.
• Physical abilities: Stamina that must be developed
for further development such as strength and agility.
• Skilled movements: Advanced learned movements
as one would find in sports or acting.
• No discursive communication: Effective body
language, such as gestures and facial expressions.
Writing the Learning Objective
In his book Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool
in the Development of Effective Instruction (1997), Mager
outlines three important characteristics to include in all
instructional objectives. They are:
1. Performance - An objective always states what a
learner is expected to be able to do and/or produce to be
considered competent.