WEEK2 : Implementing the ABCD objective writing method.

      This second week has been tougher than the first one because I had to deal with an activity I was not familiar with: writing a lesson objective in the ABCD style. In the Teachers’ training college, our masters provided us with a ready-made pattern for writing lesson objectives: “By the end of this lesson the students should be able to + action verb”. We just learned how to adapt this pattern to our different lessons. So it took me a few days to learn the ABCD method from scratch. I went through the articles and links submitted for the week. I even had to call to my rescue some of the search engines provided in noodletools.com. Eventually I found out that all the stuff about Bloom’s Method could be brought back to four (4) simple questions:

 who are your learners (A)?

 what do you expect from them at the end of the lesson (B)?

 how are they going to perform what you expect from them (C)?

and what level of  of achievement must they perform to fulfill this objective (D)?

      With this in mind, I went on applying the method to the learning objective of the essay writing lesson I am currently giving in my executive assistants classes. And this is how I have eventually been able to write the first ABCD style learning objective of my career. Thanks Sean for initiating me and my peers to writing measurable and observable lesson objectives. This is going to make our lessons clearer and consequently more understandable and attractive to our learners.