Student-friendly objectives

Writing student-friendly learning objectives is so important.  Like he said in the article, it makes a big difference in whether or not a student learns what it is they are supposed to learn.  If students know ahead of time what they are supposed to learn, it is a lot easier for them know when they have reached their goals.  When kids can see that they have learned what they are supposed to, they will have a great sense of accomplishment.  I think the biggest help technology can be is the amount of information on the internet.  Writing student-friendly objectives is difficult, but with lots of examples on the internet, we, as teachers, can see good ways to go about writing objectives that will make sense.  Also, if we are lucky enough to have smartboards in our classrooms, we can use that technology as well.  We can write the objectives on the smartboard and work with students to help them understand the objective.  If there is something that the students still don't understand, we can work through it as a class, on the smartboard, to word it in a way that the students understand.