Pages or Objectives

[Michael Sylvester]

This semester I decided to have the timeline of my lecture coverage based
on chapter objectives instead of pages : for example,instead of telling
students to read pages 4-16  for the next class period,I pass out the
chapter objectives and tell them that by the next class period they should
know objectives 1-6. I find that this method allows them to focus their
study on objectives rather than the amount of pages they have to read.
And of course,this allows me to quelch the frequency of students asking me
"what page am I on?"
 do you employ this or other strategy ,instead of telling students to read
pages so and so for the next class?

Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida