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Roman Numerals: Developing the Learning Objective


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It is important for students to know the focus of a lesson or activity, sometimes referred to as the learning objective. It helps them to know what is expected of them. In some classes, the learning objective is written on the board by the teacher and children copy it into their notebooks without discussion before the math lesson begins. It often takes five or ten minutes.

In this clip, observe how the teacher guides the students to establishing the learning objective for a review lesson on Roman Numerals.  She accomplishes this in one and a half minutes.

              1.   What are the three suggestions that students offer for the learning objective for this lesson?

              

              2.    How do you (or the students) know that three suggestions are acceptable?

               

              3.    Why does the teacher question the phrase "demonstrate Roman Numerals?"

               

              4.    Does the approach for developing the learning objective exemplified here offer any benefits over the more traditional approach?

               

              5.   What can you infer from the answers given by the students?

              

              6.   Why is it significant that it only took one and a half minutes?

              


              7.   Do you think it is necessary for each child to write the learning objective, once it has been developed?

              

              8.   Is there another point in the lesson when this discussion would be useful?

              

              9. What process standard are we seeing here?