SOURCES FOR LOCATING LEARNING OBJECTIVES
You may find lists of learning objectives in instructional materials and teachers’ manuals, local and state curriculum frameworks, the Common Core State Standards, state websites containing performance standards, reports of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, books on teaching methods, manuals accompanying tests (especially criterion-referenced tests), and reports from educational associations. More than likely you will have to adapt the learning objectives you find in these sources to your own situation. Nevertheless, these sources do provide a starting place: It is much easier to adapt and revise learning objectives statements than to write them without any assistance.
Also, a learning objective often will cut across several lessons or subject areas. The objective of being able to use library and print resources to obtain information for a report, for example, is likely to be common to social studies, mathematics, and language arts curricula. The taxonomies in the next section were created so that each category would apply across several curricular areas.