Assume That You Have a Group of Four Children, Ages

Essay

Assume that you have a group of four children, ages 3 and 4. One of them loves stick figures with a recognizable face, arms, and legs. Two can draw a stick figure with recognizable face, and one can only scribble. Your goal is: "To improve the children's ability to draw a person." The terminal objective is, "When the teacher provides paper and crayons and suggests that the children 'draw a picture someone in their family,' the children will draw a circle, then add eyes, nose, mouth, and ears to the circle." They will draw lines to indicate arms and legs. The criterion is appropriate placement of the facial features and at least four lines for arms and legs. Write a sequence of short-term objectives that will be appropriate for the children. Assume that the younger children will do the simpler objectives only because they are too young to achieve the terminal objective. However, all will progress toward the terminal objective.