Objectives_Alignment

=Objectives - Alignment=
 * Shari Plantz-Masters and Tekleab Haile**


 * Scenario:**

Jamie is a new Teaching Assistant (TA) for the beginning Spanish course. At the weekly TA meeting, the Language Department coordinator says:


 * "We now have a new assignment for all of your students. We want them to be able to write a short composition in Spanish. Make sure your students are able to write a paragraph, in Spanish, by the end of the semester. If you don't understand everything right now, that's okay. Just take a look at the syllabus later."**

The TA meeting continues on another subject. Later, Jamie looks through the syllabus to review the assignment and reads the description below.



Jamie agrees that the syllabus states the objective clearly, and that students should understand what is expected of them. As the semester goes on, Jamie has several options for clarifying the objective for the students to help them. Which do you think is the best option?


 * **Option 1 ** || **Option 2 ** || ** Option 3 ** ||
 * Jamie reads aloud the syllabus on the first day of class, and carefully explains that Objective 4 on the syllabus is new. She takes extra time to explain how many points are assigned to this particular objective. She flips to the second page of the syllabus and explains ... || Jamie reads aloud the syllabus on the first day of class. When she gets to Objective 4, she takes time to explain the importance of writing and composition clarity. She explains that literacy depends not only on the ability to speak clearly, but to write clearly as well. To reinforce the importance of writing she ... || Jamie reads aloud major sections of the syllabus on the first day of class. She believes that students need to be self-regulating, as she has a constructivist belief in education. Jamie knows that students are mostly grade oriented, so she focuses on showing them how she sets up the grade book ... ||