Week 5- Learning Objectives and ABCD

 

What are learning objectives and why are they important? That is something that I said during my first couple of years of college because I remember seeing them on the board in the classroom but I was very unsure of what they were for and why they needed to be visualized in the classroom.

Now after learning about learning objectives and why they are essential I understand why they were up on the whiteboard in the classroom. Learning objectives are important because they set the stage for the lesson, they help the students and teacher know what the goal of the lesson is. I never thought that they were so important because I always thought they just had to be up there, I also never realized that the learning objectives are based on the standards I just thought they were for the lesson. Now that I know they are based on the standards it clicks in my head on why they are essential. Knowing what I know now about the learning objectives I want to display them in the classroom because it will help the students take part in their learning. I think that having students take that part in their learning will help them take responsibility and pride in their learning. 

I also found that the ABCD formula was kind of interesting I never thought about that before. The ABCD formula is the way to make an objective, it is an easy way to remember what needs to go into the learning objectives. 

A = audience which is who

B = behavior, what students will be able to do

C = conditions, materials, resources, and limitations for performing the behavior

D = degree, what level of criteria 

This is an example of a learning objective break down, using the ABCD formula.