Chapter 6: FIFTY YEARS OF BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES: For Business or For Education?

That’s as far as I got before Dr. George appeared, and my students stood for the Pledge of Allegiance. During announcements the professor collected my lesson plan notebook and sat in the back of the room. Each day for 12 weeks I had written out plans for three different preparations—honors, college prep and general English— including title of the lesson, materials needed, instructional goals, behavioral objectives, activities, and assessment. (The assessment was supposed to be written after the lesson, of course, though sometimes we wrote them before, or wrote several on Fridays for the previous week.) Today, Dr. George would catch me one lesson plan short.