Thursday, April 2, 2009
my virtual community
Well, here we are blogging about our virtual community. I have put my objectives into blogs before, but as this conversation has progressed, I see that MAYBE my objectives are to broad to do a good job. In fact in this week's readings I have determined I am very unsure about my objectives completely. But wait, I get ahead of myself. First the task analysis. In chapter 4 of Morrison, Kemp and Ross I have identified the steps I need to conduct a solid task analysis. My global objective is to deliver professional development to my technology center and the 10 partner high schools in our district. From chapter 4 I think I need to work through a task analysis an a topic analysis. Beginning with the instructional goals derived from the definition of the instructional problem, I would say the goal is to deliver prof. dev. in an easily accessible form, ( online as opposed to face to face, taking time away from prep for first day of class) and to stimulate interest in the school improvement process. But I will learn more from a learner analysis. One neat feature that is offered ( as a generic assessment ) is the "comfort zone" assessment. The LMS I am using offers a generic prof. dev. assessment about how comfortable the person is in 11 different categories. This will help my topic analysis. I particularly enjoyed the section of chapter 4 that discussed how to be prepared to work with the SME. Then moving into objectives. I am unsure how to correct write the objectives for this training. There will be cognitive ( classroom management ) psycho motor ( fire safety ) and affective ( customer service ). This section will be a challenge. Finally the sequencing of the material. This chapter struck me as similar to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. In professional development if the teacher cannot do the simple foundational classroom tasks, they are not concerned with how to provide advanced educational tasks or technology like SenseMaker or any of the other advanced classroom ideas we have seen in this course. I'll stick to one of the last comments in this section of reading "your task analysis will provide a general outline" and go from there. Comments?
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I'm with you Linda, I thought I knew how to write objectives, now not so sure-in fact I'm sure I don't know how and will really need to scrutinze the chapter to analyze the suggestions. I prefer Bloom's taxonomy, but will probably change that after practicing!
ReplyDeleteYour project sounds very interesing and helpful, I look forward to participating in it in a few weeks :~) I agree with your statement about comparing sequencing with Maslow heirachy. It helps to put this information into a context we understand, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info Lida, I had not thought of it compared to Maslow, but after reading your post it makes perfect sense. I am a very hands on learner, so to compare it to something i am familiar with really helps. Thanks, Tomi
ReplyDeleteI like the way you reflected, as you read and thought about how the new information could be applied to your project! You did a nice job identifying /classifying the cognitive ( classroom management ), psycho motor ( fire safety ) and affective ( customer service ) domains in your project. -XG
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