Tool 5. Defining competence-based teaching objectives⁴⁷

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1. Curriculum standard (only one):
2. Please answer the following question: What is a student capable of doing when she or he has acquired the competence that you have in mind?
Description:
3. Please describe what a student should at least be capable of doing, and then think of more advanced levels of achievement.
After my students have taken part in the EDC/HRE classes on … consisting of x lessons …
… the least I would expect from every student is that she/he is able to …	… what I would like my students to be able to do is …	… actually I hope that my students will be able to …
“Minimum standard” (acceptable)	“Regular standard” (satisfactory)	“Expert standard” (good)

4. First steps to planning EDC/HRE classes
Objective	Input by the teacher	Student activities, tasks

47. See the chapter in this volume on competences in EDC/HRE. This tool is based on Ziener G (2008), Bildungsstandards in der Praxis. Kompetenzorientiert unterrichten (2nd edn), Seelze-Velber, p. 56.

Tool 4: Interviewing an expert – how to collect information

Unit 2 - Toolbox for students