A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

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ALL OF YOUR LIFE you have seen people laugh, play, work, and learn. Some people are quick to move in unexpected ways. Others move slowly and predictably. What happens that they frequently obtain the same results? What do they have in common that lets them laugh, play, and work together?

There are two ways to answer these questions: be born as multiple people at the same time, or spend lots of time carefully observing people. The former is not available.

Experimental behavioral and social scientists describe what they have learned about learning by watching people systematically for over a century. It is the nature of science to describe what we can see, hear and in other ways observe, including changes that we commonly call actions. Scientists simplify the complex into descriptions of predictable observations that others may test and refute, refine or confirm and then use. They follow a code to be objective and not to explain observations by appealing to something unseen when an observable phenomenon is available. Scientists refer to such descriptions as facts and sometimes as laws. The unobserved and non-confirmable is not the stuff of science.

ALV (A Learners’ View) for Teachers gathers what is common across these descriptions and arranges them in ways, so you may use them when you want to monitor your own teaching.

ALV guides you to descriptions of what teachers do while people learn. It gives priority to choices learners make during your lessons when they learn those lessons. It features choices teachers may make to match learners choices in order to accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning promptly and sometimes dramatically.

It strips scientific jargon away as much as possible. To help you find these facts as quickly, it lists actions for teachers in the sequence scientists report that learners use to learn.

Despite the depth and detail of descriptions you’ll find here, this guide supplements, and does not replace, judgments you make while preparing and instructing. It serves as a basic reminder and caveats of choices likely to lead to learning.

This guide combines a wiki platform with descriptions by experimental behavioral and social scientists of what you can see and hear people do while they learn from your instruction. It is unclear how helpful this combination is to you. We can answer that question better after you use it.

You may find it useful to review the Preface for this site. It provides background of how it came into being. These events happened over decades. They reflect choices that you may select and refine to fit your teaching as you attempt to earn 1.0 Teacher status.

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Preface for Classic Education: A Learners’ View (ALV) of Choices during Teaching and Learning

Preface to ALV for Teachers

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