Principles in Designing

Learning Objectives
Principle 1: Objectives must be congruent with the nation’s educational
policies and standards.
Principle 2: Objectives should unlock the mental (cognitive), physical
(psychomotor), and spiritual (affective) reserves for every
learner to liberate his true human potential.
Principle 3: Objectives must be sequenced according to the different
levels of learning that you want the learners to achieve.
Principle 4: Learning objectives must be S.M.A.R.T
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time Bound.
Principle 5. Learners should know the objective of the lesson to help
them focus their thinking and motivate participation.
STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE IN WRITING
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Institutional Objective A (name of school) graduate is expected to be…
Program Objectives When you successfully complete BSEd/BEEd, you will be able to…
Course Objectives At the end of the term, you will be able to…

When you successfully finish the subject/course xxx, you will be able to…
Classroom Objectives For Grade School
At the end of 45 minutes, Grade 1-A pupils should be able to…

For High School

At the end of 15 hours, Grade 7-A students should be able to…
For conditions describing relevant factors associated with the desired
performance:
1. After attending a lecture, student teachers should be able to…
2. Following review of a demonstration, student teachers should be able
to…
3. Given a case study, intern therapists should be able to…
4. After completing the assignment, pupils/students should be able to…
5. Given a specific instrument, third year BSEd major in sciemnce students
should be able to…
Time Frame
teacher should make good use of allotted academic
instructional time. This is necessary to determine the scope of the lesson
to be covered within a given period is a vital for the observance of good
time management.

Grade Level of the Learners

will help the teacher formulate objectives with respect to
the level of knowledge of a particular group of students. This will ensure
that students/pupils will learn topic and skills appropriate to their
developmental/cognitive stages.
 After you construct the stem, affix a VERB
(Be Specific – use only one action verb)
Nonfunctional Verbs. These keywords should be avoided when writing
specific objectives.

Appreciate Comprehend Familiarize Perceive Recognize

Become aware Develop Know Realize Understand

These are vague infinitives/verbs. To prove that somebody knows something , or has understood, realized,
perceived or become aware, he needs to show a behavior. Objective statements using these verbs are called
“General Objectives” like the Institutional Goals and Program Goals.
General Objectives and Institutional Goals
Program Goals

Appreciate
Become Aware
Comprehend
General Develop Institutional
Objectives Familiarize Goals
Know Program Goals
Perceive
Realize
Recognize
Understand
 Step 3: Once you have a STEM and a VERB,
determine…

• a learning statement that specifies what learning will be demonstrated

in the performance;

• a broad statement of the criterion or standard for acceptable

performance .
 Example:

Action Word Learning Statement Criterion

(performance) (the learning) (the conditions of the performance
demonstration)
Label The external parts of the human body using the human torso model

Write Critically about literature, using textual with proper citation

evidence
Describe The rules for numeric patterns and use the to solve the problems.

Compose A writing response to the prompt-How is by making predictions, inferences, and

the human migration affected by geography drawing conclusions.
Give The importance of vegetable classification suitable for vegetable processing.

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