An Analysis of the Lesson Plans of Tenth Grade EFL Teachers in Al-Qaser Directorate of Education

Abstract

An Analysis of the Lesson Plans of Tenth Grade EFL Teachers in Al-Qaser Directorate of Education

Ayat Naser Al-Dararjeh

Mu'tah University, 2009

This study aimed to analyze the level of the behavioral objectives formulated by EFL tenth grade teachers in their lesson plans according to Bloom's, Krathwohl's, and Simpson's taxonomy of the behavioral objectives in AL-Qaser directorate of education ,and its relation to teachers' experience and teachers' academic qualifications, and the domains of the behavioral objectives that EFL tenth grade teachers prefer to formulate in their lesson plans according to their academic qualifications and teaching experience .

The population of the study is the sample of the study comprised of all EFL tenth grade male and female teachers who were (24) during the second semester 2008/2009.They formulated (586) behavioral objectives. Percentages, frequencies and chi-square test (χ2) were used. The findings were as follows: The highest percentage of the behavioral objectives was (47.95%) in the affective domain.There were statistically significant differences between the formulated behavioral objectives due to teachers' experience, and there were no statistically significant differences due to teachers' academic qualifications. The EFL teachers were (55%) who preferred to formulate the affective objectives in their lesson plans