10-second review: Three questions suggested by Postman & Weingartner as teachers plan their lessons: What am I going to have my students do today? What’s it good for? How do I know?
Source: SL Vanderstaay. English Journal (November 2004), 53. The secondary school publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Comment: As I grew in my teaching, I began to realize the importance of setting good, clear objectives for what I was teaching, objectives that could be understood by the students, for each lesson and activity. Like it or not, students are constantly asking themselves, “Why do I need to learn this stuff?” The effectiveness of answering this question for students—or having them answer it—was proved to me when I began to establish clear purposes for learning grammar. Made a big difference in students’ attitudes toward learning grammar. RayS.
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