Talk:Pushpa Raj

Instructor comments on your outcomes,needs assessment,and learner analysis -- Jz833665 (talk) 15:23, 4 October 2014 (EDT)

Pushpa,

You've been very productive in this design project to conduct needs and learner analysis and defining learning goals/outcomes. Very impressive!

A few suggestions: 1) Your Goals of this Mini-Course section may specifically clarify the different categories of learning outcomes as defined by Gagne (e.g. verbal info, intellectual skills, attitudes...) and others.

2) You needs assessment is well done and very helpful. In addition to the info about what students know/can do about the habits of mind, did you also collect info about teachers' prior knowledge?

3) Your performance objectives

1. Participants of this course will be able to apply different strategies or activities in the classroom to help immerse students in the 16 Habits of Mind.
2. Participants will be able to demonstrate understanding of the course by at least implementing 1 lesson in their classroom.
3. Given a database of resources that includes videos, readings, activities, songs, and poems, participates will create their own lesson for a specific Habit of Mind for their class/ audience.
4. Participants will write a 1 paragraph response that backs up their experience using the 16 Habits of Mind.

I think #2 needs to be more specific about the lesson: what kind of lesson of what nature? Do you need one objective to understand the 16 habits of mind per se (by summarizing....)? Do you need each of them to know all the 16 habits of at least ones that are most relevant to their classrooms?

instructor comment on your task analysis and instructional curriculum map -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 15:25, 3 November 2014 (EST)

Nice progress made in this project!

A major improvement to be made is to enhance the consistency between performance objectives and your lessons laid out through the task analysi. For example your unit 1 includes the objective to identify the 16 habits of mind, which is not in your performance objectives.

Your task analysis means to sequence objectives into units based on a progressive hierarchy. It is not about listing activities to be used in the units, such as watch videos, read stories etc.