Module 2
Outcomes
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Differentiate between the approaches of a traditional lesson and an outcomes based lesson
- Write outcomes for lessons
- Design a basic lesson using an outcomes based approach
- Apply the cross curricular outcomes to your classroom use
- Recognise the specific outcomes for your learning area
Purpose
The purpose of this workshop is to examine the basic principles of the outcomes approach, with emphasis on the learner-centredness, collaboration and continuous assessment. It is intended that teachers familiarise themselves with these principles because in doing so they give themselves the flexibility that telecollaboration requires of them.
This workshop is not going to get bogged down in all the strange and confusing terms sometimes associated with outcomes-based education. What it will be doing is to help you to understand how one approaches the outcomes-based lesson. In the first workshop of this series it was said that we ask questions about how children learn because this determines:
- The way we design learning material
- The way we teach learning material
- The active role of the learner
- Assessment of the learning process
These 4 points will form the structure of this workshop.
The way we design learning material - writing outcomes for lessons
Traditionally, when we have designed a lesson, we may have thought about objectives for the lesson. The following table summarises the essential differences between objectives and outcomes
| "You can teach a student a lesson for a day;
but if you can teach a student to learn by creating curiosity about life, that learner
will continue the learning process as long as he/she lives" adapted from CP Bedford |
OUTCOMES |
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| What will the teacher do? | What will the students learn? |
| Describes the intent of learning. | Describes results of learning. |
| What learning opportunities are there? | What learning opportunities are used? |
| The onus is on the teacher to teach. | The onus is on the learner to learn. |
| Focus on the teacher as a teacher | Focus on the teacher as a manager |
| Qualification by passing exams. | Qualification by range of evidence. |
Attempt to identify the one big difference
between the two approaches by describing this difference in one sentence. Briefly discuss
this with your partners.
See our comments once you have completed your discussion.
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Why outcomes?
Outcomes help us to identify at the earliest possible stage what it is that we want the learners to do. Once we have written them they will determine the three remaining steps, namely
- The way we teach learning material
- The active role of the learner
- Assessment of the learning process
Copyright (C) Nikana - January 2000
