- Clearly Defined Goals: if the instructor has clearly defined goals, it will allow their students to understand what they should learn throughout the lesson. Clearly defined goals can also work as a motivator in your classroom
- Flexible vs. Constricted Learning Goals: The instructor has the decision to allow multiple means of achieving the goals (flexible) or allow fewer means (constricted) to show they’ve achieved the goal.
- Standards provide purpose: Standards provide the content and goals that the instructor wants their students to achieve from the lesson they create.
- Content vs. Performance Standards: content standards are broad statements that students should understands across many areas. Performance standards discusses how well the student meets the content standards, or how well the student performs the lesson topic.
- Sharing Learning Goals with Learners: if the instructor shares the learning goals with students, it acts as a motivator during the lesson and students will perform higher.
- SMART Goals
M- measurable by providing timely evidence: provide ongoing evidence that learning is improving
A- Attainable by all students with a reasonable time frame: consider the readiness of all learners to move onto the next topic
R- results oriented, yielding student-based learning: learning goals are learner focused and what students will do throughout the lesson
T- time bound and regularly measured: check for understanding during a time frame
7. Write Individual Education Program Goals with a UDL Lens: make sure your lesson plans can accommodate individual needs and can be modified to increase their learning
8. Learning Goals that Recognize Barriers: sometimes it is appropriate to use constricted learning goals so that students can understand the purpose of the lesson
9. Design with Assessment in Mind: teachers need to decide what evidence students need to show what they learned from the lesson.
10. Concentrate on Purpose, Not Activities: a clear purpose results in a clear learning goal that students will be able to achieve.
(Goals are in not particular order of preference)
Citation: Your UDL Lesson Planner by Patti Kelly Ralabate (2016)