A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.
Definition: 1. a Loose collection of activities. b Instruction that results in a distribution of academic performance consistent with a Gaussian Curve.
2. Typical lessons that rely on chance, convention, personal experience, and serendipity more than on data, and offered by most teachers in public school classrooms.
3. Events interpreted as lessons, but without repeatable changes in social action.
Synonyms: IMPROVIZED CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES that give the appearance of instruction without planned academic performance occurring by students in that classroom.
Antonyms: 1.0 LESSON features active ingredients of learning (AIL) during instruction and content based on task analysis and ordered consistent with Principles of Learning. A COMPLETED TEACHER offers lessons that students learn. TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC LITERACY OF EDUCATORS (TSLE) gives priority to data reported from experimental scientific research.
Metaphor: Hope.
Comment: A wish list lesson (WLL) consists of more speculation about matching a teachers’ view of the process, content, and results from a lesson than with a learners’ view (ALV) of these things. A WLL relies more on folklore about education than descriptions of learning grounded in research. ALV is grounded in experimental behavioral research results that include probabilities of choices learners will likely make while learning.
Teachers who use a WLL appear to rely more on the chance that their personal willingness, commitment, and experience working with others to learn than on technical-scientific descriptions of learning and related skills. ALV relies on application of skills and experience of experimental behavioral scientists with increasing amounts, depth, and rates of learning. 1.0 teachers demonstrate results consistent with that application. WLL contrasts with a 1.0 lesson as black contrasts with white.
WLLs arguably contribute to a Gaussian Curve distribution of learning from lessons in schools as well as to the existence of special education programs in schools for people with disabilities. WLLs appear to be the default lesson in schools, most obvious in classrooms and schools when students perform below state academic standards.
An antidote to a wish list lesson is for teachers to apply principles of learning grounded in experimental behavioral and social science research. ALV provides one approach to the application of grounded research descriptions of choices learners make while learning.
Related Reading
- 1.0 Lesson
- 1.0 Teacher
- A Completed Teacher (ACT)
- ALV, a learners’ view
- Folklore about Education
- Meet Ima Learner
- Technical-Scientific Literacy of Educators (TSLE)
- ALV and NESI Interviews, Conversations, Interviews, and Press Releases