Education, Goals, Objectives and The Five major categories of learned capabilities

              1.      Define educational goal and educational objective, give an example of each.

            Educational Goal -

Educational goals are the level of educational accomplishment, which are acknowledged as reasonable and pleasing for a specific child at a specific time. These goals help a student to know his weaknesses and thus enable him to work on these weaknesses.

 Example:

Creating a plan for the future

            Educational Objective

Educational objectives are brief statements that describe what students will be expected to learn by the end of school year, course, unit, lesson, project, or class period. In many cases, learning objectives are the interim academic goals that teachers establish for students who are working toward meeting more comprehensive learning  standards. 

 

Example:

Learning what you need to accomplish your goals.

 

2.      List the differences and similarities between a goal and an objective.

           

Differences

Goals helps focus on the big picture of what is important an objective is more specific than a goal.

 Similarities

They both have to do with learning

 

3.      Describe the relationships among educational goals, human capabilities, objectives, courses, and instruction.

       The relationship between educational goals, human capabilities, objectives, courses, and instruction is that they all have instruction in commom.

 

4.      List the five major categories of learned capabilities. Next to each, write its definition with one example.

·         Intellectual skills

o    Example: (“knowing how” or having procedural knowledge)

·         Verbal information

o    Example: (being able to state ideas, “knowing that”, or having declarative knowledge)

·         Cognitive strategies

o    (Example: having certain techniques of thinking, ways of analyzing problems, and having approaches to solving problems)

·         Motor skills

o    Example: (executing movements in a number of organized motor acts such as playing sports or driving a car)

·         Attitudes

o    Example: (mental states that influence the choices of personal actions)

 

5.      Briefly describe the major reasons why teachers or instructors or trainers should develop the ability to tell the differences among the types of learning.

     The major reason why teachers, instructors and trainers should develop the ability to tell the difference among types of learning is, because children learn in different ways, and at different rates. Some children are auditory learners, kinesics and visual learners. Every has a different learning style.