Assignment 1: Topic Outline and Objectives

Overview

Your assignments will be focused on completing a short teaching unit or training course for adults using the principles, theories, and tools that you have learned in this course.

The subject of your assignments can be a lesson within a larger classroom course, a short training course for an office environment, a professional development course, or a class for an adult continuing education program. The total teaching time should be about 1-3 hours.

Note that the Strayer Library is at research.strayer.edu and will give you access to dozens of education journals, books, and other resources for your assignments.

Assignment 1: Topic Outline and Objectives

Due in Week 3 and worth 200 points

For the first assignment, you will write a 3-4-page paper in which you will:

1. Summarize the subject that you would teach and the value of the subject for yourself and others.
2. Create a topic outline for the subject of your course.
3. Write at least one over-arching objective (terminal objective) for the entire course and 2-4 learning objectives (enabling objectives) for each topic.
4. Describe your own personal theory of learning.
5. Describe how you will use your own learning theory to teach your course.
6. Include at least three (3) references (no more than 2-3 years old) from material outside the textbook.

please include introduction and conclusion