Development and Application of Behavioral Objectives for a High School Band Curriculum
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1980-08Author
Fritz, James Edward
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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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In recent years a need has been indicated for developing
a manner of communicating goals and objectives in
education. These goals and objectives provide a cohesive
system of communication among educators regarding expectations
of student achievement. The goals should be long
range and give an overview of the material to be processed
in the educational setting. Objectives should be more of a
short term nature, and used as stepping-stones for achieving
the long range goals. Just as the long range goals should
be general and broad, the objectives should be carefully constructed
and more specific than the general goals, yet not
too restrictive or binding.
The objectives should be the enumeration of some type
of desired, observable behavior from the students. These
overt behaviors must be linked to the desired outcome of the
long range goals, in that the sum. of the objectives will lead
to the total desired long range goals. In constructing the
individual objectives, strict attention should be paid to
keeping the objectives concise and clear. The content of
each objective should contain exactly what is expected of the
student involved i:n dealing with the objective as well as the
activities included in each objective. To facilitate the
above two points, there should be constant effort and care
taken to make use of correct and valid terminology in an
attempt to clarify all points of each objective. Lastly, a
great deal or caution should be employed to make sure each
objective is soundly measurable and, therefore, can be evaluated.
After employing all the above areas of objective
construction, these objectives must then be applied in a
cogent manner in some form of outline or guide so they may
be usable by educators in their individual educational settings
with their individual student groups to achieve similar
long range goals. These objectives and goals are to be put
together for teacher-to-teacher communication, not as an
outline or syllabus for the students. A syllabus or student
goals outline is more easily developed from these objectives.