For many, setting specific Goals and Objectives can be challenging. What has your experience while working on this (assignment below)? What, if anything, has surprised you? What have you found useful? What has helped/hindered you? What is still unclear?

For many, setting specific Goals and Objectives can be challenging. What has your experience while working on this (assignment below)? What, if anything, has surprised you? What have you found useful? What has helped/hindered you? What is still unclear?
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For many, setting specific Goals and Objectives can be challenging. What has your experience while working on this (assignment below)? What, if anything, has surprised you? What have you found useful? What has helped/hindered you? What is still u

Formulation of Goals and Objectives
Goal
1. The students will demonstrate improved mastery of writing skills and grammar by engaging in selected activities and completing different tasks related to writing and grammar with 90% accuracy by the end of the Academic Prep Course
Objectives
By the end of the Academic Prep Course, students will be able to:
a. Demonstrate understanding of essay writing by engaging in TOEFL and problem solving essay writing activities.
b. Demonstrate understanding of writing graph summary by engaging in writing graph summary activities.
c. Appropriately use grammar when writing including: commas, colons, semi-colons, tense, homonyms, word forms, and modals.
Goal
2. The students will demonstrate improved mastery of speaking skills with 90% accuracy, through engaging in selected presentation activities by the end of the Academic Prep Course.
Objectives
By the end of the Academic Prep Course, students will be able to:
a. Develop formal presentation skills by demonstrating comprehension of concepts and steps involved in the process through developing presentations about careers.
b. Develop informal presentations skills by demonstrating comprehension of concepts and steps involved in the process through developing informal music presentations.
c. Develop formal and informal group presentations skills through group tasks involving presentation.
Goal
3. The students will demonstrate improved listening skills by recording 90% accuracy in comprehension of what they listen to by the end of the Academic Prep Course
Objectives
By the end of the Academic Prep Course, students will be able to:
a. Demonstrate the ability to correctly understand and record what they hear during lectures.
b. Demonstrate the ability to effectively listen during conversations through giving proper responses.
c. Demonstrate the ability to use appropriate conversational language by listening.
Goal
4. The students will demonstrate improved reading skills and vocabulary comprehension with 90% accuracy by the end of the Academic Prep Course.
Objectives
By the end of the Academic Prep Course, students will be able to:
a. Demonstrate improved abilities to read academic articles and acquire academic vocabulary from the articles.
b. Demonstrate improved abilities to read through business articles and acquire business vocabulary from the articles.
c. Demonstrate improved abilities to read current events articles and acquire new vocabulary they encounter from the articles.
References
Graves, K. (2000). Designing language courses: A guide for teachers. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Thomson Learning.