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Blank road signs are metaphor for teaching writing with no objectives

Few activities have more potential to revolutionize teaching than creating good objectives. Yet most writing teachers have questions about the necessity of having objectives, particularly objectives for their writing goals, let alone how to go writing them.

If you have questions —or any other issues related to goals and objectives for writing within the ELA curriculum — this forum is a safe place to voice them. Each visitor comment posted on the forum will have link at the bottom of the post so you can respond.

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Having trouble writing objectives to satisfy school I've got a problem writing objectives the way my school wants them. They say I have to write objectives in my lesson plans and code them to show which ...

They're tough, but worth the effort Writing objectives are difficult to create, but worth the effort because they focus your lessons. I usually only have to write objectives for my own classes....

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Published 07-Dec-2009;updated 09-Dec-2011