Part of an eight-module, graduate level, competency-based curriculum to prepare specialists in vocational education curriculum development, this module provides information, activities, and experienced designed to develop expertise in writing goal statements, performance and instructional objectives, and in developing instructional plans. Preceded by a pretest, posttest, and glossary of terms, the learning activities and instructional objectives are organized according to three major performance objectives which relate to establishing educational priorities, writing and sequencing performance objectives, and completing occupational and instructional analyses as part of the instructional plan. These major performance objectives are subdivided into several instructional objectives which are accompanied by related learning activities. The learning activities include fact sheets, worksheets, activity sheets, and keys. A self-instructional module is appended which provides information and learning experiences for writing behavioral objectives in the six levels of the cognitive domain--knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. A bibliography is also included. (NJ)