How to write lesson objectives

1. How to Write Lesson
Objectives
Carolyn E. Flores

2. Characteristics of Objectives
(Mager, 1998)
O It describes student performance.
O It is about ends rather than means.
O It describes the conditions under which
performance occurs on the job.
O It describes the standards of acceptable
performance.

3. In short, an objective will
describe the:
O What the student should be able to do
(performance)
O The conditions under which the doing will
occur (conditions)
O The criteria by which the performance will
be judged (acceptable performance)

4. Sample:
O Given the tool kit and PC assembling
manual, the students will be able to
disassemble and assemble the contents
of the system unit within 2 hours.

5. Standards and Competencies
in the K to 12 Curriculum
O Contains content and performance
standards and competencies
O Uses the standard-based instruction

6. Content Standards
O Define what students should know and be
able to do
O Are benchmark which identify the
expected understandings and skills for a
content standard at different grade levels

7. Performance Standards
O Describe how well students need to
achieve in order to meet content
standards
O Are levels of proficiency which the
students are expected to demonstrate
what they know and what they are able to
do

8. Competencies
O Are specific tasks performed with mastery
O Refer to ability to perform activities within
an occupation or function to the standards
expected by drawing from one’s
knowledge skills, and attitudes

9. Sample: English
(Oral Language)
Grade 3

10. Content Standards
The learner understands the
standards of English in order to participate
in various oral communication demands
(situation , purpose and audience)

11. Performance Standard
O The learner has sufficient facility in
English to inderstand spoken discourse
and to talk and interact with others about
personal experiences and text listened to
or read

12. Competencies
O Listens and interacts with others in a
group or class discussion
O Listens and responds to texts, recall the
main ideas, and relates them to personal
experiences
O Converses, asks questions, and talks
about events and personal experiences in
a group
O Tell stories, recite sor reads aloud
informally or for audience