Chapter 5: Planning Goals and Learning Outcomes

Goal planning seems to be a big step in setting up a language program.
There are so many issues to consider. It seems to me that it would be hard to set up a language program.

The reason I'm saying this is because we DO NOT HAVE LANGUAGE PROGRAM GOALS, OUTCOMES, and/or Mission Statement for our school.

I've also asked my administrator for our school's mission statement. The only one we have is an out-dated "vague" mission statement. It's only one paragraph.

In the ideology of a curriculum, there are five subcatogories to consider for goal planning. The beliefs and values for the community would have to be considered.
After these categories are considered, then there are aims and objectives to look at.
Competencies are also considered after aims and objectives.

All of these catagories have to be considered for program planning and learning outcomes.
These categories have detailed items that have to be considered.
If we were to make a mission statement for our school, (because we have an out-dated one) we would have to consider all of the detailed steps.
That's why I said that this step is a big one.