This article, as a practical guide, introduces pedagogical strategies to PETE faculty on how to teach PETE students to develop quality instructional objectives. Specifically, this article presents three pedagogical strategies: (a) Bloom's taxonomy to differentiate objective categories and their hierarchical levels, (b) Action-Condition-Criterion…

Suggests that sometimes making assignments "vague" places the burden of decision making and problem solving on students, requires that students invent and pursue their own questions, and demands that they practice independent thinking. (MS)

A system of different types of tasks can be used to help language learners achieve their learning goals, which may include learning of: discrete language items (sounds, vocabulary, grammatical constructions); content or ideas of the subject studied (geography, literature, mathematics, cultural understanding); language skills (listening, writing,…