SIOs stands for Specific Instructional Objectives. We teachers will always face the problem of trying to understand how much the students have learnt from the lesson. No matter how well the lesson has been taught, everything will come to nought if the students have not learnt a thing.
It is very difficult to gain access into the students' mind just by verbal questioning. I remember often in the classes I have had, when the teacher ask, "Class, do you understand?", unless it was a really simple concept otherwise the whole class will keep quiet. Somehow we have a mental barrier to admit we have learnt nothing from the teacher's rambling for the last hour. Maybe we fear we would break the teacher's heart, being the good students we are (heh heh).
Therefore SIOs are needed to let teachers have an insight into how much the students have learnt. This is done by setting specific goals for the students to achieve after the lesson.
I have learnt that good SIOs must follow the 4 letters ABCD. A stands for audience, B stands for Behaviour, C stands for Conditions, D stands for degree. This means that the SIOs must cater to the ability of the Audience to exhibit an observable Behaviour in a given Condition to a specific Degree. For example we can set the SIO for a chemistry lesson to be, "Given the reactants(C), a sec 4 express student(A) should be able to write down the reaction equations(B) to 100% accuracy(D)"
Although we were ask to critique other group's SIOs as well, I realised I am not too sure how to critique as I have only learnt the basics of writing effective SIOs. Therefore I wish to learnt how to write effective SIOs and in turn be able to give constructive ideas to other people's SIOs. These are my reflections for this week.
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