Diploma in didactic strategies for teaching basic computer skills

How to write goals?

How to write goals?

By Ricardo Velasco Preciado & Rocío Ruiz Méndez

The training action plan of the EDECIB diploma aims to promote the use of
computer tools in teaching action to support, in addition to knowledge of the
content specific to the academic program, the development of skills and attitudes in the
students with a humanistic-integrative approach. With this in mind, it is intended that it establishes the
purpose of the plan.

The purpose is the result that is sought to be obtained through a learning process.
Teaching should be the guiding principle of the entire training plan and should be in harmony with all the
other parts of the plan. Behavioral changes in the participant are expected upon completion of the
proposed sessions. A purpose does not describe an activity, but what will be achieved by carrying it out.
learning activities.

The domains of learning, which include purposes, can be cognitive, psychomotor.

attitudinal. The following are detailed:

Cognitive skills refer to knowledge, understanding, and application. That is to say, it is expected that the
participants develop intellectual skills and abilities. It is expected that they will be able to employ
information and theoretical knowledge. Establish a correct purpose in cognitive aspects
will lay the groundwork for the design of teaching strategies and the evaluation process
in the training action plan.

The psychomotor skills refer to physical skills. If a purpose is drafted in this regard, it
I would expect the participants to handle the computer tools, resources, and materials.
For writing, it is important to take into account the motor skills that the participant will have.
what to develop with the skills that are taught.

The attitudinal refers to feelings, interests, attitudes, and perspectives. The writing in
In this sense, I would seek for the participants to have a different behavior when acquiring and
apply attitudes, values, and feelings. It could be like learning to coexist with the environment and
learning to be.

The diploma program, as you know, has a competency-oriented focus and these, in turn, combine
different capacities, which are linked to the pillars of education (as established by the
UNESCO) and/or to the development axes of the diploma. Below is a graph for
that they visualize the types of abilities and their relationship with the competencies:

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(Catalano 2004, p. 119)

Due to the integrative approach of the diploma program, the training action plan must include
the types of capacities shown in the table, which should also be stated in
the purpose of learning. Thus, to establish a purpose, we must be clear about
knowledge to build in students, the procedural knowledge that is expected to have
domain of computer competencies), without neglecting the humanist approach of knowing how to be and
knowing how to live together (the axes of development).

Taking all of the above into account, let's now look at an example of writing a purpose:

a. First, let's write down the timeframe for accomplishing the goal: For example, at the end of the plan.
training.

b. Now let us indicate to whom the purpose is directed, for example, the students.

c. Next, let us indicate what is expected for the student to learn. This with a verb.
the verbs that indicate the behavior to be observed and measured, in order to demonstrate it
learned. In general, the future tense is used, it is written clearly, without
ambiguities. For example, they will explain their own proposals for environmental care.
environment of your community.

d. Indicate how, that is, by what means the purpose is intended to be achieved.
Example, through products made with software applications

e. Indicate the purpose, that is, the reason for pursuing the goal. For
example, in order to strengthen their competencies in the use of ICT to support.

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building their knowledge and the development of the axes 'Living with the environment'
environment", "Living with others" and "Learning to be". In total, the purpose should not have
more than 6 lines.

Thus the purpose that we have just built would be:

At the end of the training plan, the students will explain their own proposals for care of the
environment of your community; through products made with applications
informatics; in order to strengthen their competencies in the use of ICT to support the
construction of their knowledge and the development of the axes 'Coexisting with the environment'
“Coexist with others” and “Learn to be”.

This example is from the purpose of the training action plan as a whole, it should also
write a purpose for each strategy I implement. These will be more specific and together
they will correspond to the purpose of the plan.

For further reference regarding the writing of your purposes, the following are provided to you
table arrangement with suggestions of verbs to use according to the domain that is intended
participant reach. In the cognitive aspect, the table is as follows:

Knowledge: Understanding: Application:

Remember information Interpret information Use knowledge or the
putting it in their own generalization in a new
words situation
Organize Classify Apply
Define Describe Choose
Duplicate Discuss To demonstrate
Label Explain Dramatize
Enumerate Express To employ
Pair Identify Illustrate
Memorize Indicate Interpret
Name Locate Operate
Order Recognize Prepare
Recognize Report Practice
Relate Rephrase Program
Remember Review Outline
Repeat Select Solve
Reproduce Sort Use
Say
Translate
Analysis: Synthesis: Evaluation:
Divide the knowledge into Join or unite, parts or Make judgments based on criteria
parts and show relationships fragments of knowledge given
among them to form a whole and
build relationships for
new situations.

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Analyze Organize To value

To value Assemble Argue
Calculate Collect Evaluate
Categorize Compose Attack
Compare Build Choose
Contrast Create Compare
To criticize Design Defender
Diagram Form Estimate
Differentiate Manage Evaluate
Discriminate Organize To judge
Distinguish To plan Predict
Examine Prepare Qualify
Experiment Propose Award scores
Inventory Trace Select
Question synthesize Support
Examine to draft Value
(Eduteka, 2002)

In the psychomotor aspect, verbs that indicate an action can be used, taken from the
Harrow taxonomy:

Reflex movements Basic movements Perception

Adjust Position
Balance Calibrate Cut
Maneuver Connect Create
Manipulate Build To draw
Teclear Control Design
Assemble To frame
Filter Record
Graduate Illustrate
Measure Read
Mix Observe
Operate Prepare
Program

Inter-American University for Development, 2006

In the affective aspect, the following verbs from Bloom's taxonomy can be used:

Acclaim Collaborate Join

Agree, It is advisable Defend Offers
Argument This is in disagreement Participates in
Assume Dispute Elogy
Try Participate in Resist
Avoid Help Share
Wire Be attentive to He/She offers to volunteer
(EDUTEKA, 2002)

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Now it is time to write the purpose of your training plan. To do this, it is important to have
present at all times your diagnosis, the curriculum of your subject or field of study
training, the development axes and everything else that comes up to the moment of your plan. Clarify doubts,
make your first draft, share it, ask for opinions and make the necessary corrections until
that you remain satisfied.

References:

Catalano, A., Avolio De Cols, S. & Sladogna, M. (2004) Curriculum design based on competency standards
Labor: concepts and methodological orientations. Buenos Aires: Inter-American Development Bank.

Eduteka. (2002, September). How the purpose of learning objectives is established. Retrieved on
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Interamerican University for Development (2006). Tools for formulating objectives. Retrieved on
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PMS01Objectives.pdf

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