DETERMINING, NOTIFYING AND EVALUATING LESSONS’ OBJECTIVES IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING: STATUS QUO AND SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The tasks of determining, notifying and evaluating lessons’ objectives play a decisive role in teaching and learning efficiency and forming capacity for learners. When designing lesson plans, teachers describe that capacity via three elements namely knowledge, skill and attitude in correlative orders and levels. At the beginning of a learning session, teachers must notify the objectives of lessons so that learners know the orientation and take the initiative in their learning. During the teaching process, the objectives of lessons must be evaluated to ensure the efficiency of teaching and learning. An investigation into 19 lesson planed by teachers participating in Vocational Teaching Festival of Thua Thien Hue Province in 2015 has shown many limitations and shortcomings. Specifically, 100% of those lesson plans’ objectives were not properly determined, 100% notified objectives ineffectively or made no notification, 47% did not evaluate the objective of knowledge. This is a major obstacle in the transference from content-based orientation to capacity-based orientation in vocational training, which needs to be changed.