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Starting curriculum outcomes

Aim

Purpose of aim statements:

·         To provide a clear definition of the purposes of a program

·         To provide guidelines for teachers, learners, and materials writers

·         To help provide a focus for instruction

·         To describe important and realizable changes in learning

The aim statements reflect the ideology of the curriculum and show how the curriculum will seek to realize.

These statements reflect several of the philosophies in the preceding section. The following are examples of aim statement from different kinds of language programs.

A business English course

·         To develop basic communication skills for use in business contexts.

·         To learn how to participate in casual conversation with other employees in a workplace.

·         To learn how to write effective business letters.

A course for hotel employees

·         To develop the communication skill needed to answer telephone calls in a hotel

·         To deal with quest inquiries and complaints

·         To explain and clarify charge a guest’s bill.

Aim statements are general derived from information gathered during a need analysis. In developing aim statements, it is important to describe more than simply the activates that students will take part in.

Objective

An objective refers to a statement of specific changes a program seeks to bring about and result from an analysis of the aim into its different components. Objectives generally have the following characteristics

·         They describe what he aim seeks to achieve in terms of smaller units of learning.

·         They provide a basic for organization of teaching activities

·         They describe learning in term of observable behavior or performance.

Because the aim relates to writing business letters, an objective in the domain of telephone skills is not consistent with this aim. Either the aim statement should be revised to allow for this objective or the objective should not included.