Before we can jump into creating or modifying a lesson for Universal Design, we are going to do a quick rewind on writing objectives in the ABCD format. If we back up to have a lesson in mind and write a clear objective with audience, behavior, condition, and degree in mind as we begin this module, it will help as you begin to brainstorm and work your way through creating and incorporating learning activities that not only align with your objective, but also incorporate the UDL guidelines.

The learning objective you are using as you work through this module needs to state clearly what you want the outcome of the lesson to be and what you want students to be able to do when they've completed the lesson. As you'll hear in the video in this lesson, they also help us to "design, evaluate, and redesign instruction" which is what we are doing in this professional development module. We're designing or redesigning for Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

With this method, we'll be using a color code model to help delineate the four parts of the objective. See the videos and illustration below for an explanation of A (audience), B (behavior), C (condition), and D (degree). In the first video, the learning objective is referred to as a module objective.