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Create learning objectives for your next unit

Create Targeted Learning Objectives with This ChatGPT Prompt, Focusing on Outcomes, Measurement, and Standards Alignment

What This Prompt Does

  • Generates clearly defined, level-appropriate learning objectives that align with curriculum goals.
  • Connects objectives with assessment strategies to ensure measurable outcomes.
  • Supports integration with educational frameworks (e.g., Bloom’s Taxonomy, NGSS, Common Core, state standards).
  • Helps teachers and instructional designers scaffold learning outcomes from basic understanding to mastery.
  • Encourages alignment of instruction, evaluation, and student success tracking.

Tips

  • Be specific with your educational level and content area so that the output aligns with grade-appropriate cognitive skills (e.g., “describe” for elementary, “analyze” for high school, “critique” for college).
  • Add a request for alignment to standards like Texas TEKS, California Common Core, NGSS, or university syllabi.
  • Ask for objectives mapped to Bloom’s levels (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create).
  • Request rubrics or performance indicators to guide grading or evaluation of the learning objectives.
  • Use the follow-up prompt to adapt for formal institutions or curriculum audits.

Prompt

Please list detailed learning objectives for the [grade or university level] and how they should be measured for a unit on [topic].
Follow-up Prompt (optional): Provide specific objectives in line with [State’s or university’s] educational guidelines.

How To Use The Prompt

Replace the placeholders with specific instructional details:

  • [grade or university level]: e.g., “6th grade,” “undergraduate business course,” “community college”
  • [topic]: e.g., “fractions,” “ecosystems,” “market segmentation,” “Renaissance art”
  • [State’s or university’s]: e.g., “New York State Learning Standards,” “Ohio Math Curriculum,” “UCLA Core Requirements”

Example Input

#TEACHING CONTEXT

  • Grade: 8th
  • Subject: History
  • Topic: U.S. Civil Rights Movement
  • Educational Standards: California Common Core Social Studies
  • Measurement: Essay-based assessment, group projects, class participation
  • Class Type: Mixed ability group, general education

Example Output

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify key figures and events of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (1950s–1960s).
     Measurement: Timeline creation, oral presentation

  2. Analyze the social, political, and legal impacts of landmark rulings like Brown v. Board of Education.
     Measurement: Structured essay with thesis and supporting evidence

  3. Compare and contrast the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
     Measurement: Venn diagram + group discussion rubric

  4. Evaluate the effectiveness of nonviolent protest strategies.
     Measurement: Persuasive writing assignment, peer review

  5. Reflect on how the movement influences present-day civil rights issues.
     Measurement: Journal entry and class forum response

Standards Alignment
 ✔ California History-Social Science Content Standard 8.9
 ✔ Common Core Literacy in History/Social Studies (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2)

Additional Information

This prompt is ideal for:

  • Curriculum designers writing unit plans, syllabi, or accreditation documents
  • Teachers setting goals for student learning and backward planning from assessments
  • EdTech creators developing standards-aligned interactive lessons or testing systems
  • Instructional coaches helping educators match goals with meaningful evaluation methods

You can also follow up with:

  • "Design a multiple-choice quiz for Objective 1"
  •  "Convert these into IEP-compatible goals for SPED students"
  •  "Translate these objectives into Spanish"

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