What are the difference between Aims and Objectives?

What are the difference between Aims and Objectives?

Aims are general statements regarding the overall goals, ends or desires of teaching. Objectives are the individual phases that learners must accomplish on the way in order to reach these goals. For example a teacher might have an aim that a student should be able to write a poem using the poetic devices or elements. Nonetheless to achieve this aim a series of objectives must be met. eg to explain what is poem, different types of poems, features of poems, pioneer of poems, history of poems etc.

A teacher might have as an overall aim that students should accept the relationship between literature and poem. To achieve this aim the following objectives might have to be met: use the imaginative language to express feelings and ideas, rhyming scheme, pattern of poem, scaffolding etc.

• Aims are accustomed, objectives are precise.
• There are more objectives than aims.
• Aims are like blueprint, objective are like tactics.

Aims and objectives can form hierarchical structures so that in complex curricula aims at one level might be seen as objectives at another.