Focus on learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are the set of skills, knowledge, and behaviours that children are to develop over the course of a learning activity or a larger curriculum unit.

Learning activities and assessment both improve when you, the teacher, establish specific learning outcomes.

Setting learning outcomes
Whether you are planning a new learning activity or gearing up for an activity that you are familiar with, begin by identifying the learning outcomes.

You may wish to answer the following questions:

What skills will be used or developed?

What information will be accessed or mastered?

What behaviours will be practised?

• The learner working independently will use multiplication and division to solve time-and-distance equations as a homework assignment.

• The learner working in a learning pair will write his or her own mathematics story problems that express time-and-distance equations in space-travel scenarios.

1. Who
   
2. What will be done
   
3. Under what conditions
   

These elements are then combined, as in:

1. The learner working in a small group
   
2. will create a map of the school grounds
   
3. in one-inch scale.
   

(1.) The learner (2.) will be able to use simple addition to solve a problem (3.) in a realistic context.

(1.) The learner (2.)will be able to work as a member of a group to complete research activities and present findings (3.) in writing.