ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the discussion of the teaching model, to see what it means in classroom terms to use an objectives approach. Teaching is a business of changing and inducing behaviour; if we did not intend to do this, we would not bother with education. The teaching model was put into practice in an intervention study with six teachers. Of course, specifying objectives is not a guarantee of successful teaching: there are many pitfalls between lesson plan and lesson. Despite the difficulties in planning, objectives are much easier to implement; there is no room for doubt or floundering, and so the value of every minute of teaching is maximized. Since teaching involves getting children to do new things, they are not themselves likely to know if what they offered was what the teacher wanted, so it is vital that the teacher tells the child if he got it right.
