Standards, Goals, and Objectives

I have been looking at standards and writing goals and objectives since becoming a Health Education major, yet I would still have trouble now and then writing objectives. I would create an objective for my students and then realize that it was immeasurable or that it was not actually connected to the goals that I had set for the students.

Reading more about how each is created helped me to visualize the hierarchy that is involved. Standards are overarching statements of what should be learned by all such as the National or State standards for all students. Goals are more specific and discuss the ideas. These relate to the standards and combine parts of the standards into them. Goals can be for the school, classroom or individual student but they are generalized statements of what will be completed. The objectives are even more specific and state what each student will be doing. They are made up of four parts; Audience, Behavior, Conditions, and Degree. Seeing objective writing broken down into the four parts really helped me to write effective objectives.

Using Standards, Goals and Objectives will help me as a teacher to pinpoint what I want students to walk away knowing and the skills that they should master. By including these into lessons the lessons are more direct and will have better results. They will be thought through and assessment of the objectives will be possible. Helping students to set their own standards, goals, and objectives can help them to complete what they start and always reach for the next level of skill and understanding.